Research and Development


How to Outsource R&D

R&D isn't just for big corporations. Here's how you can use innovation to build your business, from selecting projects to tax advantages.

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Cashing In On Creativity

Creative Think, in Menlo Park, Calif., a consulting firm founded and operated by Roger von Oech, 35, is dedicated to planting fresh ideas in stale minds.

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One Company's Budget: Increasing Capital Investments in a Recession

Fusion Systems makes manufacturing equipment with a twist: they innovate new ways to make obsolete machines.

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Ready, Set, Innovate

Six tips for turning employees into innovators

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The Start of a Beautiful Friendship

Partnering with your customers on R&D.

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Recent Research and Development Articles

The Future of Manufacturing

A New Zealand company called Ponoko has reinvented the factory for the 21st century.  Read story

30 Under 30 2009 - IdeaPaint - John Goscha, Jeff Avallon and Morgan Newman

As a student in Babson College's entrepreneurship program, John Goscha hated hanging big pieces of paper on the wall for brainstorming sessions. So he enlist...  Read story

U.S. Commerce Secretary Announces Plan for Entrepreneurs

Initiative to empower innovative entrepreneurs, Secretary Locke tells Inc. 500|5000 Conference attendees.   Read story

How to Conduct Market Research

A guide to using market research to understand who your customers are and what they want  Read story

Supreme Court Reexamines Patent Laws

A reversal of the earlier decision that business methods are not patentable could likely change the face of business.  Read story

Xbox Live Leaves Indie Developers in the Cold

Xbox will be even more socially connected, come autumn, but will smaller game developers be let in on the action? Probably not.  Read story

Managing: Unleashing Employee Creativity

How West Paw Design turned all of its employees into designers  Read story

Charles Jacobs Goes Inside the Entrepreneur's Brain

Leading corporate consultant, Charles Jacobs discusses how brain structure can impact business management.  Read story

How to Guard Against Patent Infringement

Once you've received patent protection, enforcing it is mostly your job. Here's how.  Read story

How to Protect Your Invention

Advice and tips on how to protect a new invention from copycats and competitors  Read story