The cleaning products industry dedicates an enormous amount of resources to assuring the safety of products, including many millions of dollars in research, development and testing before products ever hit the shelves.
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The investment will be used to boost production facilities and fund research and development of products.
Last year, for the first time, spending by Apple and Google on patent lawsuits and unusually big-dollar patent purchases exceeded spending on research and development of new products, according to public filings.
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Navin Geria, vice president of research and development for the Spa Dermaceutical Products Group, a New Jersey-based consumer product development company that specializes in custom development of anti-aging skincare and products for dermatologists and spa chains, says that a new range of anti-aging technology called cosmeceuticals (cosmetics that companies says possess drug-like affects) will go a step further.
Less money in the fee kitty translates into fewer support staff, less advanced technology systems, and less money for research and development of new store formats or products.
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It requires large companies with considerable resources to do the amount of research and development required not just for developing the products but also for getting all of the data required for regulation and there is a different regulatory regime in the USA, in Europe, in Japan, in Australia whatever.
This means Dell will have the difficult task of cranking up its research and development efforts even as it tries to push its products through retailers.
The result is vastly inflated research and development costs, less innovation and diminished exploitation of superior techniques and products that could offer more crop for the drop.
With economies of scale in manufacturing, procurement, distribution, marketing, sales, financing and research and development, you could get so giant no competitor could effectively attack your products or prices.
As independent head and media suppliers in an increasingly consolidated market, TDK and SDK carried on research and development that allowed them to introduce advancements such as perpendicular recording in Toshiba products in 2004, many months before the other hard disk drive companies could bring their perpendicular recording products to market.
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Here because of escalating research and development costs as well as shrinking budgets there is a need for solutions and products that are simple, less costly for everyday use.
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Pile likes Martek because research suggests that its products, DHA and ARA, are "essential for healthy mental, retinal and neural development in infants, " and its goal for several years has been to tap into the infant formula market.
Federally funded university research has contributed critical knowledge that in turn led to the commercialization of the Internet and the development of products such as computerized imaging, global positioning systems, smartphones and tablet computers.
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