The R&D 100: a company's research budget tells you very little about its prospects

Article Abstract:

The top 100 companies based on research and development expenditures is presented with Toyota Motor Corp. coming out on top followed by Pfizer Inc. and Ford Motor Co. The analysis of the data reveals that research and development spending does not account for the entirety of a company's competitiveness even with a comparison of the research and development intensity.

Financial management, Finance, Company financing, Rankings, List

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What were we thinking?

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It seems, in retrospect, that the question of why engineers in?recent?decades so often focused almost exclusively on centrally controlled and administered systems stands out. In fact, history?demonstrates?that distributed, user-empowered solutions often can be remarkably effective.

Product development, Government domestic functions, Public affairs, Centralized Organization, Social aspects, Telecommunications regulations, History, Economic policy, Science history, Government communications regulation, Technology and state, Technology policy, History of computing, Computer history, Telecommunications policy, Centralization (Management)

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Is "industrial research" an oxymoron?

Article Abstract:

An ongoing decline in industrial research in electrical engineering is occurring. Business leaders are transforming research into development.

Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, Electrical engineering

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