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New Strategies for New Challenges Corporate Innovation in the United States and Japan (1999) / Chapter Skim
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... corporate central lab will increasingly play a scanning, mediating, and strategic role, quickly linking the firm's business needs to internal and external sources of necessary technology and informing technology strategies through research-based technology road maps. In this formulation, the central lab will put relatively less emphasis on internal research and relatively more on managing rapidly evolving innovation networks comprised of partnerships and alliances of various forms.
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... dollars. SOURCE: National Science Board, Science and Engineering Indicators 1998.
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  • engineering indicators
  • industrial research
  • time horizons
  • research consortia
  • innovative capabilities

  • central lab
  • external sources


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