R&D Management

Within the next 10 years, it is estimated that researchers will spend up to 30 percent more time in meetings and their offices, and 20 percent less time in their laboratories. Tomorrow’s research organizations need to be agile, efficient and effective to keep up with the demands of shareholders and customers. Speed to market continues…

The U.S. government invests a significant amount of money to further research and technology innovation. In 2017, the federal government invested approximately $150 billion in R&D— about one-third at the 17 federal laboratories across the country and two-thirds at universities and private sector R&D institutions, according to government reports. This represents about one-third of all…

Water is an excellent and non-toxic solvent. That is why life on Earth is so dependent on it, and why it is the reagent of choice for much wet laboratory work across many scientific fields, including biology, chemistry, and physics. However, for the researcher, the strong solvent properties of water can pose a problem: it…

Now in its 53rd year, the Lab of the Year Awards, recognizing excellence in research laboratory design, planning and construction, announced the winners of its prestigious international competition at the 2019 Lab Design Conference in Orlando earlier this week. The 2019 Lab of the Year is MIT.nano in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The project was submitted by Wilson HGA. Also recognized as Lab…

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The Global R&D Funding Forecast, is an annual R&D Magazine report that contains exclusive research findings and analyses of the upcoming year and beyond.

Increasing level of R&D activities, as well as their costs, indicate the need to establish an efficient system of strategic management in R&D organizations. This is important, not only for improving R&D sector performance, but also for improving the performance of the national economy as a whole. R&D projects are undoubtedly of great importance for…

The Management Perspective: Leveraging and Augmenting the PI’s Research The bench researcher or principal investigator (PI) who conducts the type of research described in this article is providing valuable information. Use these findings to help determine the potential for the proposed R&D to answer three important questions: Technology: Will investing in this R&D provide something…

These are exciting times for product developers in many industries, not just for all the new technologies and capabilities being incorporating into new products and product lines these days, but also for the management science around the practices and processes used from creation through launch. There is a long time lag from the initial concept,…

What is the right set of metrics for tracking innovation impact inside a large company? Can you really run an R&D center or innovation lab without collecting any metrics? My company, Innovation Leader, a community for executives responsible for innovation in large organizations, tackled those two questions as part of a survey we fielded earlier…

How does your company determine how much to spend each year on R&D? Likely, a group of senior executives get together and offer their thoughts on what the figure should be for the next year. After a back and forth discussion focusing on the right amount for R&D, other corporate financial considerations are then put…

U.S. spending trends Noting again that the NSF data is in arrears, let’s use R&D Magazine‘s GFF data to examine recent trends.  Globally, China, Korea, and the Scandinavian countries are making consistent waves. The data shows it.  But, for this article, let’s just pull out the pieces from past and current GFFs for the U.S. …

R&D Magazine’s 59th annual Global R&D Funding Forecast estimates that global R&D investments will increase by 4.1% in 2018 to $2.190 trillion in purchasing power parity (PPP) values for the more than 115 countries having significant R&D investments. These include those countries with more than $100 million in R&D investments. This forecast rate is a…