21st-Century R&D: New Rules and Roles for the R&D "Lab" of the Future: The R&D Lab of the Future Is Far Less Likely to Be "A Lab" Than an Intricate, Dynamic Innovation Ecosystem

In May 2007, at IRI's Annual Meeting, Richard Antcliff challenged IRI members with a presentation asserting that "three tsunamis" were about to break upon RD global demographic shifts, most notably growth in China and India; and climate change all posed challenges that promised to transform RD multiple data collection and analysis methods can limit biases inherent in any one method. Second, the nature of our inquiry into a literally unknowable future mandates a nonstatistical approach. …