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IBM Research: The World is Our LabDr. Matthias KaiserswerthDirector and Vice PresidentIBM Research - Zürich


IBM Research - Zurich

Agenda

Introduction

How an idea becomes an innovation at IBM

Dilemmas of Strategic Innovation Management

Questions & Discussion



IBM Research: The World is Our Lab

WatsonAlmaden

Austin

TokyoHaifa

Zurich

India

Dublin

Melbourne

Brazil

China

IBM Research labs Labs added since 2010

Kenya



• World's largest information technology research organization

• More than 3,000 scientists and engineers

• IBM spent $6.3B on R&D in 2011

• 5 Nobel Prize Laureates

IBM Research: The World is Our Lab



Isolated ResearchJoint Projects

Radical Collaboration

’50s — ’90s

’90s — ’00s

’00s …

IBM Divisions, Clients, Universities

In-world Research,Smarter Planet Research, Business &

Societal Challenges

Hardware

+ Software & Services

+ Smarter Planet

The Eras of IBM Research

Corporate

Level of Collaboration



Agenda


Introduction





Business managementIdeas management

TechnologyTrends

IndustryTrends

SocialTrends

Idea

Prototype

Patents AcademicPapers

PilotDeployment /Productization

Experience Papers

Industry Solution Labs

Research Solution Centers

Trend Scan3-10 years out

Research

Acquisitions

Transfer

Licensing

Collaboration

FOAK

How an Idea Becomes an Innovation at IBM



Global Technology

Outlook

Identify emerging technology trends significant to industry in the next 3 - 7 years

Has a direct influence on IBM’s technical strategy

Global Innovation

Outlook

Dialog about innovation, business transformation and societal progress

Collaborate across a global ecosystem

GIO 4.0: security and society, water and oceans

jamJamming

Collaboration between companies, organizations and family members to yield first-of-a-kind opportunities

Trend Scans



Ideas management

TechnologyTrends

IndustryTrends

SocialTrends

Idea

Prototype



Experience Papers




Research

Acquisitions

Transfer

Licensing

Collaboration

FOAK


IBM and ETH Zurich unveil plan to build new

kind of water-cooled supercomputer

June 2009



From Idea to Productization with Water Cooled Computing

Idea

Prototype


Research

Intelligent use of heat

emissions in data centers

of the future

CeBIT - March 2008

Hot-Water Cooled SuperMUC

Named Europe’s Fastest Supercomputer

June 2012



Ideas management

TechnologyTrends

IndustryTrends

SocialTrends

Idea

Prototype



Experience Papers




Research

Acquisitions

Licensing

Collaboration

FOAK

Transfer


Transfer



Technology Transfer in Nanopatterning

Idea

Prototype


Research

Transfer

IBM Research creates

world’s smallest 3D map

April 2010



Agenda


Introduction





Dilemma #1Bottom Up and Top Down



vs.

Dilemma #2Long-term research and short-term success



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Dilemma #3Promotion of intellectual property



How do you confront these dilemmas?Here is a snapshot from IBM Research.



For Dilemma #1High Reputation

ReputationManagement of Corporate R&D Centers

Phase 2: Reputation Ranking

• Data normalized to top-ranking FHG, n=1138/25

Reputation Management of Corporate R&D Centers, Universität St. Gallen, 2009



zu Dilemma #1 & #2Research with Market Success

For Dilemma #1, #2IBM Research - Zurich



www.rsc.org/loc

Volume 9 | Number 23 | 7 December 2009 | Pages 3313– 3452

ISSN 1473-0197

Miniaturisation for chemistry, physics, biology, & bioengineering

Delamarche

One-step immunodiagnostics

LuPressure measurement

LeeLabel-free detection with SERS

DemirciAutomated cell quanti!cation for HIV 1473-0197(2

009)9:23;1-U

As featured in:

See Huang et al., Lab Chip,

2009, 9, 3354–3359.

www.rsc.orgRegistered Charity Number 207890

‘‘Acoustic tweezers’’ enable on-chip continuous particle separation

through standing surface acoustic wave (SSAW)-induced acoustophoresis

in a micro!uidic channel.

Title: Continuous particle separation in a micro!uidic channel via standing

surface acoustic waves (SSAW)

Featuring work from the group of Professor T. J. Huang in

the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, The

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA Volum

e 9 | Num

ber 23 | 2009 Lab on a C

hip

Pages 2253–2408

www.rsc.org/loc

Volume 9 | Number 23 | 7 December 2009 | Pages 3313– 3452

ISSN 1473-0197

Miniaturisation for chemistry, physics, biology, & bioengineering

Delamarche

One-step immunodiagnostics

LuPressure measurement

LeeLabel-free detection with SERS

DemirciAutomated cell quanti!cation for HIV 1473-0197(2

009)9:23;1-U

Volum

e 9 | Num

ber 23 | 2009

Lab on a Chip

Pages 3313–3452

TOTAL SYNTHESIS

Four of a kind

OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION

Better through blocking

WATER-OXIDATION CATALYSIS

Nanotubes provide stability

Single-molecule mug shot

OCTOBER 2010 VOL 2 NO 10

www.nature.com/naturechem

istry

nchem cover Oct 2010.indd 1

7/9/10 13:52:16

European Research Council Advanced Grant 2011

Robert-Wichard-Pohl-Preis 2011

ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award 2010

R&D Magazine Top 100 in 2010

Best Innovation European Identity Award 2010

Gerhard-Ertl-Preis for Young Scientists in 2010

For Dilemma #1 & #2Balanced Research Agenda



For Dilemma #3Open Innovation

Binnig and RohrerNanotechnology Center

IBM Client Center(Industrial Solutions Lab)



Collaborative Innovation

Venture Capitalists ISVs Business

Partners

Universities

CommunityLeaders

CompetitorsEmployees

Regulatory Bodies

Investors

IT AnalystsAlumni

StandardsBodies

Policy-makers

ClientsInnovation Ecosystem



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