| Abstract Scope |
How we innovate, is just as important as what we innovate. When we look at materials innovation today, it is no longer just the computational materials scientist or the experimental materials engineer toiling in a laboratory for years that is responsible for breakthrough innovations. Instead, it is teams of cross disciplinary scientists and engineers, the intersection and immersion of which creates new paradigms of thinking for not only what we innovate, but how we innovate. A case study evaluating how organizational structure impacts innovations will be given, specifically focused on how novel metal powders, characterization methods, and consolidation techniques are rapidly evaluated, iterated, and deployed inside of an agile innovation framework. |