Industrial Research for Future Competitiveness
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1997, 1997
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1997 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The crucial question: to invest or not to invest in research?
- 2. Characteristics of research
- 2.1 Problems of measurement and definition
- 2.2 Appropriability and transferability of research results
- 2.3 Specific risks of research
- 2.4 Specific benefits from research
- 3. Reasons for research
- 4. Research as a source of potentials
- 5. Research potentials and project funding decisions
- 6. On property rights and project potentials
- 7. Research potentials and relative share of research
- 7.1 Mandatory research
- 7.2 Mandatory research and transfer cost
- 7.3 Supportive research
- 7.4 Tests of the basic relationships
- 7.5 Estimates of research elasticities
- 7.6 Limits to research expenditure
- 8. On sufficient conditions for research success
- 9. Primary research potentials as a necessary condition for research success
- 9.1 A taxonomic approach
- 9.2 Diagnosis of trouble
- 9.3 Suggestions for building potentials
- 9.4 How much attention for each function?
- 10. On locating research
- 10.1 Qualitative analysis
- 10.2 Modeling the location decision
- 11. Conclusions
- Basic research expenditures as a percentage of total research and development expenditures in major industrialized countries, 1971–1993
- Nominal and real industrial research expenditure in three countries (Germany, Japan, U.S.)
- The relationship between the share of industrial research expenditures and the interest rate in Germany for three industries, 1965–1991
- Example of a Mission Statement
- Literature