Wellspring Blog

It’s no secret that university technology commercialization is flourishing. Corporate sponsorship of university research has grown over 50% in the last few years, universities reported almost double the number of start-ups compared to a decade ago, and we have witnessed year-on-year, sustained... Read More

      Employ Technology Scouting and IP Management For many industries, innovation is a slow and costly process. This is especially true of capital-intensive verticals such as chemical manufacturing. Yet, innovation remains a top priority for corporate bosses in the chemical industry and a major... Read More

2015 has been a year to remember, and we are proud to provide the most robust software solutions for Technology Scouting, Corporate Venture Capital, Tech Transfer, Sponsored Research, and Clinical Trials management. Our dedicated team of professionals has worked hard this year to continue advancing... Read More

You are tasked to find that all-important next big thing—how do you find it amongst the deluge of information on the web? It’s like finding a needle in a haystack, and the haystack keeps getting bigger. Crowdsourcing and Google searches are shotgun approaches to idea gathering and can take huge... Read More

5 Tips for Successful Industrial Research Partnerships Read More

The SRA International Annual Meeting was a tremendous event for networking and education. I had the opportunity to speak at the SRA talks to discuss what’s wrong with sponsored research administration and what you need to address these challenges. The following blog summarizes my presentation. Read More

To those of you who did attend, thank you for making the 2015 Wellspring User Group Meeting our most successful user group meeting to date. The event was a tremendous success for us, and we received very helpful suggestions for the continued improvement of Wellspring products and client... Read More

  “You Need an Innovation Strategy” is the title of a recent article in the Harvard Business Review; it is also a statement of fact. An organization without one is, as author Gary Pisano notes, a “grab bag of much-touted best practices” that will only become successful through sheer luck. Pisano... Read More

Innovation is rarely the result of a single eureka moment. In fact, the vast majority of disruptive technologies enter the market after being adapted from another industry, discipline, or use. The commingling of ideas, and the rate at which companies can adopt external sources of information, has... Read More

For the past three decades manufacturing firms have embraced supply chain management as the backbone of a scale-driven, competitive, and increasingly global economy. The value of a streamlined process was first demonstrated when Sakichi Toyoda implemented the Toyota Production System (TPS) in the... Read More