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Engines of Tomorrow

How The World's Best Companies Are Using Their Research Labs To Win The Future

by Robert Buderi

Simon & Schuster, 2000

Category: IT, Production & Logistics

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In this summary you will learn

  • Why innovation, not invention, will shape the future
  • What seven rules govern innovation
  • How IBM, Siemens and NEC approach research and development

Why you should read Engines of Tomorrow

Robert Buderi has produced a work of impressive detail - a thoroughly documented account of the workings of the world’s leading research labs. The book carefully follows the financial swings of the R&D effort, and closely examines the increasing pressure on researchers to turn a quick buck. The history of this critical economic component is probably unknown to most readers, and Buderi tells an engrossing tale. The book’s one inescapable shortcoming, however, is the fact that Buderi finishes his story without a mention of the vast innovation currently sprouting from sources far afield of the Fortune 500. In addition, little mention is made of what makes some research efforts flourish while others fade. Nevertheless, getAbstract highly recommends Engines of Tomorrow as a book that rises beyond a simple corporate history to a study in human innovation.

About the Author

Robert Buderi  is the former technology editor at BusinessWeek and is a contributing editor for Technology Review A past Vannevar Bush Fellow at M.I.T., his prior book is The Invention That Changed The World Buderi authors the popular "Lab Watch" column for Upside magazine, and his work has appeared in Newsweek, Time, The Economist, Science, Nature and The Atlantic Monthly He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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