It was long, tedious work to estimate the cost savings for hundreds of applications. We try to do this all the time, without much success. Our company is very project oriented and cost is important. We try to assess the value provided by a development effort. For example, we propose a project, and if this works, we estimate the savings in production time and convert that to dollars.
Monetary benefits are hard to define.
No, but it is hard to estimate what portion of our sales would be affected. Our participation in the ERC means to our customers that we are keeping up with the latest research, and they will continue to use our model. Not in our company. The ERC sends an annual report. I send it to selected people who I think might be interested in results.