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The Human Factor in Industrial R&D

In: Business-Driven Research and Development

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  • Ashok Ganguly

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The human factor in industrial R&D is the single most important decisive element which determines output and effectiveness of scientists in industry, and yet one which has remained a grossly underexplored subject. While some of the great inventors during the first industrial revolution tended to be solitary figures, the issue of developing specialised manpower to undertake scientific research remained obscure until the present century. Formal human resource development policies for R&D specialists began to evolve in the German chemical industry during the years before World War II, traces of which can still be found in parts of the European pharmaceutical industry.

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  • Ashok Ganguly, 1999. "The Human Factor in Industrial R&D," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Business-Driven Research and Development, chapter 7, pages 136-160, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-4039-1595-5_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9781403915955_7
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