Lean R&D has been used at PUC-Rio to foster industry-academia collaboration in innovation projects across multiple sectors. This industrial experience paper describes recent experiences and evaluation results from applying Lean R&D in partnership with Petrobras in the oil and gas sector and Americanas in retail. The findings highlight Lean R&D's effectiveness in transforming ideas into meaningful business outcomes. Based on responses from 57 participants - including team members, managers, and sponsors - the assessment indicates that stakeholders find the structured phases of Lean R&D well-suited to innovation projects and endorse the approach. Although acknowledging that successful collaboration relies on various factors, this industrial experience positions Lean R&D as a promising framework for industry-academia projects focused on achieving rapid, impactful results for industry partners.
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@article{arxiv.2501.11774,
title = {Experiences Applying Lean R&D in Industry-Academia Collaboration Projects},
author = {Marcos Kalinowski and Lucas Romao and Ariane Rodrigues and Clarissa Barbosa and Hugo Villamizar and Simone D. J. Barbosa and Helio Lopes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.11774},
year = {2025}
}