A 2024 Gartner survey found 48% of R&D organizations have a formal technology scouting process.

Scouts bridge gaps between external startups and in-house teams to spark innovation. They source new ideas and knowledge from the outside world, helping companies create new and better products and make processes more efficient.

But new research from Francisco Polidoro Jr., professor of management at Texas McCombs, finds a hidden tension among knowledge scouts. A key part of their role — working with multiple divisions to foster collaboration — can actually make them less effective, not more.

Digital Science has announced the first of its next-generation AI capabilities in Overleaf, the leading collaborative cloud-based writing and editing platform for LaTeX.

In his new book "Fix the Past or Invent the Future: Moving Beyond One-Size-Fits-All Education" education scholar Yong Zhao outlines how decades of reform efforts and millions in investments have not notably improved American education. The problem is trying to fix things in one way for everyone, and the time has come to focus on crafting an individualized approach to education that empowers students and teachers to solve problems they care about, as each has the power and the technology to do so, Zhao writes.