In a featured article, Sopheon's Iain King shares ten practical and tactical ways to improve your ROI on innovation investments.

Studies indicate that companies succeed during tough economic times by investing in product innovation. To ensure that your company continues to get ROI from new product development, read about ten best practices leading innovators use regularly.

Over the past months parallels have been drawn between current economic conditions and those of the Great Depression era. While I certainly wouldn’t want to belittle those who are experiencing hardships or unemployment, I don’t think we are or ever will see a plight of that caliber again. Something I recently read however, did draw me to an applicable comparison between current conditions and that period of time.