Research and Development and Financial Performance of UK Manufacturing Firms
UK manufacturing firms have many factors which influence their
financial performance. Research and Development could be a key factor
in determining a firms success, however it does not assure financial
improvement in all businesses due to the extensive variety of business
types. Research and Development can be defined as the scientific
investigation necessary to discover new products and the process of
bringing these products onto the market. A manufacturing firm, which
generally refers to a business that makes or processes raw or semi
processed materials into either a finished product or further
processed materials, by using large-scale mass production by means of
automation and production lines. Manufacturing firms tend to rely on
economies of scale to lower costs and allow bulk-buying benefits, from
this firms produce large volumes of products using specialised
machinery, which can then be sold at low prices to finance the
business.
Research and Development can take many forms, for example, large
international pharmaceutical companies spend huge amounts of money on
Research and Development, this is because pharmaceutical companies
rely heavily on new products which can be patented, and then used as a
competitive advantage that allows premium pricing and increased
profits. It is estimated that only about one product in the
pharmaceutical industry is commercialised for every ten which are
developed and test-marketed. Therefore, the company will have massive
Research and Development costs to recover when it actually launches a
new product, and it will ...
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...their rivals, and provide very strong after-sales service to
customers. The deciding factor in whether or not R & D may improve the
financial performance of a UK manufacturing company could be many
things, which depends on the type of product they are producing, its
geographical location, the state of the economy, the firms flexibility
to produce new products, the skills and funding put into the R & D
process, the Corporate Culture, whether it encourages innovation and
creativity, or whether it promotes more traditional tayloristic
principles. Finally, the short term and long term objectives of the
firm also affect its financial performance, whether its plans are to
develop new products with short life cycles to continually adapt to
the changes in consumer needs, or whether to economize and focus on
long term survival.
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