Research management

Research management has the responsibility to create a working environment that promotes, encourages, rewards, and facilitates the application of inherent safety in the development of process chemistries. 

Formerly Industrial Paints Research Manager, ICI Paints, Slough... 

The Business Problem, Current Approaches, and Research Management Views... 

Research Management Views on Improvement, Organizational Learning, and the Potential Contribution of IT Support... 

Advances in Research Simulations Intended to Improve the Mental Models of Research Management... 

Much has been published about simulations of research and development (R D), but in the area of research process improvement there are still many challenges. This chapter consists of two main parts, covering current approaches, which have met limited acceptance, and newer approaches aimed more directly at overcoming the most likely areas of cognitive difficulty that research managers face when making decisions on performance improvement. 

Present verbatim comments from recent interviews with research managers on needs for organizational learning about processes and performance, which also reveal some common attitudes toward the use of IT support and simulation tools. 

In interviews of R D management during 2004, comments by research managers on portfolio management included ... 

RESEARCH MANAGEMENT VIEWS ON IMPROVEMENT, ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING, AND THE POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION OF IT SUPPORT... 

It is clear that quantitative predictions of research performance, and models of possible improvements, are not well accepted by research managers. Two major barriers are the uncertainty that exists at early stages of R D and the mix of repetition and variation between different projects. 

ADVANCES IN RESEARCH SIMULATIONS INTENDED TO IMPROVE THE MENTAL MODELS OE RESEARCH MANAGEMENT... 

Common errors in research management, indicating the most likely needs for simulations to provide practice in decision making and give feedback on a range of possible outcomes... 

An instance of cadmium-zinc sulfide (Cd , Zni i S) cathodic electrodeposition can be found in the work of Morris and Vanderveen [130]. These researchers managed to obtain polycrystalline Cd , Zni i S films from stirred aqueous solutions (pH 2,... 

The views expressed here are my own, and they are based upon 17 years of industrial experience, 12 of which were in research management, so they should prove representative, as they are driven by a common set of pressures present in the current industrial climate. The three basic questions that I address are... 

Jeffrey L. Sturchio. Chemistry and Corporate Strategy at Du Pont, Research Management. 27 (1984) 10-18. Source for transformation from explosives to nonexplosives and for history of industrial labs. 

Strengthening Science at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Research-Management and Peer-Review Practices (2000)... 

Research initiatives, competitive advantage from, 24 393 Research Institute for Fragrance Materials (RIFM), 73 388 Research management... 

Support the ongoing business of elastomer of the associated market segments and regions, Knowledge of different type of rubber NBR (Acrylonitrile Butadiene rubber), SBR, PBR, EPDM, HSBR, HBR and application in different filed like tire industries, plastic industries, Adhesive, An effective researcher/ manager with excellent designing and presentation skills... 

We would like to thank all of the authors for their valuable efforts in making this book serve as a definitive reference source on CE for laboratory analysts, researchers, managers/ executives in industry, academia, and government who are engaged in various phases of analytical research and development or in quality control. 

Charles F. Reinhardt, who has an M.D. from Indiana University School of Medicine and an M.Sc. in occupational medicine from Ohio State University School of Medicine, retired after more than 30 years with the DuPont Company. Dr. Reinhardt joined DuPont s Haskell Eaboratory in 1966, first as a physiologist, then as chief of the physiology section, and then as research manager for environmental sciences. In 1971, he became assistant director of the laboratory and in 1976 was named its director, a position he held until his retirement in 1996. Dr. Reinhardt has served on numerous... 

Laboratory Research Manager, Croda Synthetic Chemicals Ltd., Four Ashes, Nr. Wolverhampton, West Midlands WV10 7BP, UK... 

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