R&D Project Manager Skills – #innochat

In today’s #innochat, Gwen Ishmael’s introduction had me thinking about what R&D skills each different leaders need in order to be successful.  In a broad generalization, R&D project managers tend to manage internal and external resources to develop innovations for individual projects, while directors tend to also have a focus on how the work of [...]

R&D Portfolio Optimization: Better U.S. Business Competition in Global Economy

The National Science Foundation recently published preliminary findings from their Survey of Industrial Research and Development.  This research found that companies located in the United States reported worldwide sales of $11 trillion in calendar year 2008 and spent $330 billion on research and development (R&D). Nearly $234 billion of the R&D expense was for R&D [...]