15.5. Lessons for Other Organizations
The process employed by the MRF can provide significant upside for nonprofit and for-profit organizations alike. Potential benefits include optimizing the return on R&D and innovation investments by leveraging potentially lower-cost external resources, refocusing resources, accelerating the discovery process, and achieving more and better innovation.
These guidelines can help organizations attempting a similar approach increase their chances of achieving the desired results:
Get buy-in and involvement from scientific experts. For scientists, it is a point of pride to know who the key players are in their area of expertise, and often a large share of the findings from the workshop process confirm their existing ...
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