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Product Development Institute is dedicated to helping companies improve their approach to new product development and portfolio management. The Institute has conducted some of the world's most comprehensive research and best practices in new product development - research that has led to some of the most important discoveries in product innovation such as: the widely used Stage-Gate^® system; the concept of New Product Portfolio Management; and the Innovation Diamond™ Framework.

With over sixty years of research and professional advisory experience combined, co-founders Dr. Robert G. Cooper and Dr. Scott J. Edgett are globally recognized as leaders in the area of new product development and new product portfolio management. They have been published more than 200 times and have written eleven books; creating a wide body of research knowledge. Dr. Cooper and Dr. Edgett have worked with 1,000+ companies including many of the Global 1000. They have compiled the largest body of knowledge on product innovation best-practices in the world.

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