Stimulate innovation-give your creative employees a mini-fellowship

Author

Holly, Douglas H. ; Fritz, Roger L. ; Wicklund, John

Author_Institution

TTC, Germantown, MD, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

11-13 Oct 1998

Firstpage

136

Lastpage

141

Abstract

This paper describes a program used to encourage creativity in the technical community. A small portion of research and development funding is used for creative and innovative employee-initiated projects. The process involves a broad cross-section of the technical community in the identification, selection and support of innovative research ideas. It is designed to encourage employees to bring new product and process ideas forward and compete for funding. Selected researchers are given a nurturing environment to pursue a technical area of personal interest, a mini-fellowship

Keywords

research and development management; creative employees; innovation stimulation; innovative employee-initiated projects; innovative research identification; innovative research selection; innovative research support; mini-fellowship; research and development funding; technical community; Abstracts; Business; Feeds; Investments; Pipelines; Proposals; Research and development; Resource management; Solids; Technological innovation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering and Technology Management, 1998. Pioneering New Technologies: Management Issues and Challenges in the Third Millennium. IEMC '98 Proceedings. International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Juan, PR

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5082-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMC.1998.727750

Filename

727750