Historically, innovation, new technology, and research and development (R&D), are activities that have been associated with periods of rapid industrial development and economic growth. This perhaps is the reason for the phrase, innovation, ‘the engine of growth’ coined by economic historians around the middle of the 18th century. In this sense industry can be seen as the cornerstone of prosperity in society, and for this to continue R&D must be supported and at the forefront of industry strategy. What is more, at ground level for individual businesses, creating competitive advantage can be the difference between ‘thrive or survive,’ and quite often this comes down to new technology derived from R&D. However, recently the economy has suffered …show more content…
Furthermore, goes on to say two thirds of funding is in two sectors pharmaceuticals and aerospace where Britain is a ‘significant player’ and sponsored by government. This could explain to some extent the shortfall in other seven sectors. There is no reason to doubt the DTI’s scoreboard, although it is only one source and any decision making could benefit a wider application of data. The Guardian analysis of R&D funding states it is more costly in Britain compared to rivals, and uses a Japan verse Britain scenario that has significant cost difference, however this can be skewed as Japan dominates this R&D sector therefore to fund money here for R&D probably secures higher …show more content…
Furthermore, they suggest patent mapping yields useful insights into a firm’s R&D strategy and can illuminate areas of technology thrust claiming this is possibly the only revealed source of competitive profiling of a firm’s technology. Bowonder et al, illustrate the analysis with various tables of patents from 1990 through till 1999. With three main criteria used, measured R&D total expenditure, R&D expenditure as percentage of sales (R&D intensity), number of patents granted, and R&D spending per patent for each firm. Bowonder et al, examine the R&D spending patterns of Global firms by calculating the amount of total spend on R&D, number of patents awarded to each of them, and the cost per patent. This seems a comprehensive and sound method of measuring what can be seen as a difficult task, given a firms intellectual rights and secrecy normally surrounding its technology. It is agreed that it can illustrate areas of current technology interest, however patents do take a considerable time to assign possibly supplying out of date trend information. Although it would still benefit by observing a firms general R&D behaviour patterns, its competitive technology position, and the firms annual budgets. Additionally, the cost per patent
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Google is by far one of the top companies when it comes to capital expenditures (Capex), despite the drop in expenditures in 2015, the company remained well ahead of the competition. During 2015, right after Ruth Porat took over as the company’s CFO, capital expenditures at the company dropped every quarter. According to Levy (2016), total capital expenditures fell 14% for the company. However, Google’s largest competitors, Microsoft and Amazon, continued to increase their capital expenditures with Microsoft increasing spending by 19%. and Amazon maintained its level of spending after increasing spending more than four-fold over the previous four years.
The United States Patent Office (“USPTO”) faces criticism from its users and legislators that the timeliness of the patent process and ultimate quality of issued patents are inadequate. In order to address this criticism Congress made several changes to the authorities of the USPTO in the last decade and considered more changes in 2009. Nevertheless, problems persist and some stakeholders argue that reorganizing the USPTO as a government corporation would best alleviate these problems by broadening its authorities even further and releasing it from external constraints.
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...s and partly, to gain a competitive advantages in the global market. Thus, the company spends billions of dollars in innovative research activities to add new knowledge into the existing knowledge.
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1997). By reviewing the literature on learning and innovation, we try to answer the following
However, despite the long-term economic growth, technological progress is very important, and even if we...
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