Productivity, R&D and international competitiveness
by Bela Gold
International Journal of Technology Management (IJTM), Vol. 8, No. 1/2, 1993

Abstract: The continuing intensification of international competition has increased the importance of seeking advantages by means which are less readily accessible to competitors. Two of the most important among these involve internally-generated advances in (1) productivity and (2) research and development. As a result, the evaluation of progress in these sectors, and of alternative means of accelerating them, has become of increasing concern to top managements. But strengthening the bases for their analyses and subsequent decisions requires managements to reach beyond long-prevailing simplified concepts to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of the nature of changes in productivity and R&D; the major sources of such improvements; and effective means of evaluating their effects.

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