ENGINES OF TOMORROW: How The Worlds Best Companies Are Using Their Research Labs To Win The Future - Hardcover

Buderi, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684839008 ISBN 13: 9780684839004

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2000

Synopsis

An inside look at the corporate innovation and technological research going on inside IBM, GE, Lucent, Intel, and Microsoft offers profiles of the R&D "engines" currently operating in some of the biggest companies in America.

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Review:

Engines of Tomorrow, by former Business Week technology editor Robert Buderi, is a serious look at the role corporate research plays in long-term business success. Despite a perception that such activity has been dramatically scaled back in recent years, Buderi says, the opposite is actually true among today's global business leaders; in truth, he notes, there are now almost 13,000 corporate labs in the U.S. alone, employing some 700,000 scientists and engineers who spend about $150 billion annually. And, he writes, this is "the prime venue where New Knowledge is converted into Useful Products, and where success and failure can be most plainly gauged in terms of patents, market share, sales, stock prices, and the like." To support his contention, he goes inside more than two dozen facilities at nine of the biggest innovators in the U.S., Europe, and Japan--IBM, Siemens, NEC, Lucent Technologies, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, Intel, and Microsoft--where he examines "management philosophies, funding paradigms, incentive programs, and all the rest" employed by the leading labs. Recommended for anyone interested in the underlying factors that actually drive corporate growth. --Howard Rothman

About the Author:

Robert Buderi, a former BusinessWeek technology editor and Vannevar Bush Fellow at M.I.T., is now an Upside magazine columnist and contributing editor to Technology Review. He is the author of The Invention That Changed the World and his articles have appeared in Newsweek, Time, The Economist, Science, Nature, and The Atlantic Monthly. He served as an advisor to the British Broadcasting Corporation's recently released Science at War documentary series. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0684839008
• ISBN 13: 9780684839004
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448