Shape-Shifting in the World of R&D
Shape-Shifting in the World of R&D [SR-773]
In the next ten years we will witness an explosion in R&D forms. This will be a period of large-scale experimentation in which many R&D forms will co-exist, often under one corporate umbrella. Today, the world of R&D is experiencing the equivalent of the prehistoric Cambrian Explosion when the earth saw a huge number of new life forms appear and spread over the planet. In approximately the last 100 years, a combination of forces, from government policy to scientific culture, have re-shaped the landscape of R&D. From early domination by individual inventors at the end of 19th century, R&D has moved into large-scale corporate and government R&D labs, and in the last ten years increasingly outside of internal organizational boundaries into innovation networks, bringing together internal and external resources to solve problems or pursue common passions.
Publication Date
September 2002