Corning won the National Medal of Technology four times for its product and process innovations.

These consider such questions as: post-war product and process innovations, the income-leisure trade-off, management and trade union attitudes, regulatory mechanisms and public inquiries, consumer and public attitude surveys.

Innovation in service firms, organizations, and industries - organizational innovations, as well as service product and process innovations, and the management of innovation processes, within service organizations.

This includes increases in energy and resource efficiency as well as product and process innovations such as environmental management and sustainable supply chain management, clean technologies, benign substitution of hazardous substances, and product design for environment.

Much of a network's power lies in the support that its members give to each other: WWB member institutions share product and process innovations, relay best practices and lessons learned, evaluate each other, and hold each other accountable for results.