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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Let’s face it, specifying the best flow instrumentation for your application can be a daunting task. That’s why we created a Full Line Flow Product Catalog to simplify the flow meter specification process. application benefits in one, easy-to-use brochure. With our Flow Product Catalog: Select the perfect flow meter or controllers by application or technology…
Building Bridges for a Faster Path to Technology Transfer
More than $150 billion in federal funding is invested in R&D annually in the United States. A key question is whether or not we are getting the maximum return on that investment. Right now, the answer is that we could do better (1). Although technology transfer from 1996 to 2013 has contributed $518 billion to…
2019 Global R&D Funding Forecast
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.
Global Funding Forecast Predicts Growth of R&D Spending Worldwide
The Three Keys to Inspired Product Development
The Importance of Gender Equality in R&D
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…
New White House Science Advisor Outlines His Goals at AAAS Annual Meeting
After filling a position that was previously vacant for more than two years, the new director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) said he is ready to enact changes that will push the U.S. to new frontiers in science. During the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual…
Innovation in America: Where do we Stand?
Look Before You Leap into New R&D Projects: Consider the Make vs. Buy Spectrum First
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…
The Power of Awards, Product Announcements to Boost Market Capitalization
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,…
Getting Ahead of Demand: Using Intelligence Foresight to Better Plan R&D
It is increasingly challenging to plan R&D in a way that will keep the company ahead of the demands of consumers and competitors, especially within durable goods and materials science companies. Some site an issue with “R&D lag”—the inability of R&D teams to make new materials that can meet consumer demands. While R&D teams don’t…
Global R&D Funding Forecast Wins 2018 Folio Eddie Award
Industry News Reports by R&D and Manufacturing.net Selected as Finalists for Coveted Folio Eddie Awards
Analysis Chronicles Changes in US Investment in R&D
These Are the Metrics Large Companies are Using to Monitor Innovation
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…
Do You Know Your Research Quotient For R&D Spending?
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…
An Uptrend in U.S. R&D Spending: Possible Breakthrough Period Ahead
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. …
2018 Global R&D Funding Forecast Snapshot
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…
The Race to Knowledge: How Researchers Benefit from New Scientific Literature Access, Acquisition and Analysis Technologies
Unlocking the Potential for Successful Technology Transfer
Editor’s Note: A special highlight of the third annual 2017 R&D 100 Conference—held Nov. 16 and 17, 2017 at the Walt Disney World Swan Resort in Orlando, Florida—was the “R&D Technology Transfer Forum (TTF): Unlocking the Potential,” a session that explored the obstacles and barriers encountered with transferring technologies from the government to the private…
Managing the Growth of Scientific Data
Five Facilities Take Home Honors in Laboratory of the Year Awards
Now in its 51st year, the Laboratory of the Year Awards continue to recognize excellence in research laboratory design, planning and construction. This annual international competition receives entries from the best new and renovated laboratories. Eligible projects represent a wide variety of laboratory types, including research, quality assurance/control, teaching, software development, environmental, clinical, forensic, and…
R&D Magazine and Laboratory Design Announce 2017 Laboratory of the Year Winners
Now in its 51st year, the Laboratory of the Year Awards continue to recognize excellence in research laboratory design, planning and construction. Judging for this year’s competition took place on March 28, and was conducted by a blue-ribbon panel of laboratory architects, engineers, equipment manufacturers, researchers and the editors of R&D Magazine and Laboratory Design.…