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Patents and Innovation: An Empirical Study

Mansfield, Edwin - In: Management Science 32 (1986) 2, pp. 173-181

To what extent would the rate of development and introduction of inventions decline in the absence of patent protection? To what extent do firms make use of the patent system, and what differences exist among firms and industries and over time in the propensity to patent? These questions are in...

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Business Unit Strategy and Changes in the Product R&D Budget

Hambrick, Donald C.; MacMillan, Ian C.; Barbosa, Ricardo R. - In: Management Science 29 (1983) 7, pp. 757-769

This study of changes in Product R&D intensity in business units supplements past studies by including two major classes of independent variables which have not been examined previously: the competitive strategy of the business and role of the business in the overall corporate portfolio....

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A Stochastic Optimization Model to Improve Production Planning and R&D Resource Allocation in Biopharmaceutical Production Processes

Schmidt, Robert L. - In: Management Science 42 (1996) 4, pp. 603-617

The increasing cost of health care has brought pressure to reduce pharmaceutical costs, and because manufacturing and R&D are significant cost factors, these areas have been targeted as potential sources of cost reduction. Manufacturing costs are particularly high in the biotechnology industry...

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Research, Development, and Engineering Metrics

Hauser, John R. - In: Management Science 44 (1998) 12-Part-1, pp. 1670-1689

We seek to understand how the use of Research, Development, and Engineering (R,D&E) metrics can lead to more effective management of R,D&E. This paper combines qualitative and quantitative research to understand and improve the use of R,D&E metrics. Our research begins with interviews of 43...

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The Practice of Management Science in R&D Project Management

Liberatore, Matthew J.; Titus, George J. - In: Management Science 29 (1983) 8, pp. 962-974

The results of an empirical study on the current usage of quantitative techniques for R&D project management in "Fortune 500" industrial firms are presented. A nonrandom sample of 40 respondents from 29 firms were selected to represent a mix of industrial sectors and geographic regions. The...

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The Stock Market in the Driver's Seat! Implications for R&D and Marketing

Chakravarty, Anindita; Grewal, Rajdeep - In: Management Science 57 (2011) 9, pp. 1594-1609

The budgets for research and development (R&D) and marketing should be determined by managers to attain product market advantages. However, in response to investor expectations for short-term stock returns, managers may modify these budgets myopically to avoid unexpected short-term earnings...

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Parallel Funding of R&D Tasks with Probabilistic Outcomes

Bard, Jonathan F. - In: Management Science 31 (1985) 7, pp. 814-828

This paper addresses the problem commonly faced by R&D managers of funding redundant R&D tasks across several stages or components of a project. In the proposed methodology it is assumed that task outcomes are random, but that their distribution can be determined from engineering inputs. In...

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Retail Channel Structure Impact on Strategic Engineering Product Design

Williams, Nathan; Kannan, P. K.; Azarm, Shapour - In: Management Science 57 (2011) 5, pp. 897-914

We examine, in a strategic setting, the broad issue of how retail channel structures--retail monopoly versus retail duopoly--impact a manufacturer's optimal new product design, both in terms of engineering design specifications as well as manufacturer and retailer profits. Our strategic...

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The Effects of Communication on Technological Innovation

Ebadi, Yar M.; Utterback, James M. - In: Management Science 30 (1984) 5, pp. 572-585

This study examined the relationship between communication and technological innovation. It focused on the patterns of … technological innovation. The objectives were to: (1) investigate the effects of communication on technological innovation at an … individual level, and (2) study the effects of interorganizational communication on technological innovation. Data were gathered …

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Price Indexes for R and D Inputs, 1969--1983

Mansfield, Edwin - In: Management Science 33 (1987) 1, pp. 124-129

This paper presents the first R and D price indexes based largely on actual prices and expenditures reported by firms. The results, based on a carefully designed sample of about 100 firms, show that the GNP deflator, which is used in the official government R and D statistics, has tended to...

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