Industrial Research for Future Competitiveness
By: by Klaus Brockhoff
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9783642645532; 9783642607899
Subjects: Industrial engineering; Economics
Description: Industrial research has come under pressure. Will recent budget cuts reduce competitiveness? Based on interviews in Japanese and European high-tech firms it is shown that research supports important potentials. These can be used for project funding, location decisions, and an analysis of sufficient conditions for research success. Careful management of the potentials should improve future competitiveness, and it should help to understand why industrial firms benefit from research and how.
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Table of contents: title: From the contents: The crucial question: to invest or not to invest in research?- Characteristics of research; title: Reasons for research; title: Research as a source of potentials; title: Research potentials and project funding decisions; title: On property rights and project potentials; title: Research potentials and relative share of research; title: On sufficient conditions for research success; title: Primary research potentials as a necessary condition for research success; title: On locating research; title: Conclusions; title: Appendix.