The Future of Research and Development in the Digital Printing Industry

摘要

In recent years many large corporations have moved away from doing all R&D in vertically integrated organizations within the corporation to a model in which only selected critical or 'core' R&D is done in more or less the traditional way and the rest is done by some other model, including: ·Acquiring technology ·Industry / academic partnerships ·R&D partnerships ·R&D outsourcing ·Globalization (R&D in lower cost geographies) ·"Open Innovation" processes Given the very challenging global economic environment today, this trend will probably continue or even accelerate.