2012 R&D Trends Forecast: Results from the Industrial Research Institute's Annual Survey: R&D Managers Are Optimistic about Investment in R&D as Focus on Innovation Intensifies

The Industrial Research Institute's (IRI) 2011 survey of member companies suggests a general optimism about RD RD the analysis is based on responses from 73 IRI member companies and 31 non-IRI companies. Because this is a voluntary survey and IRI membership changes due to business events such as mergers, the mix of companies changes from year to year. Nevertheless, we believe that there are a sufficient number of responses from the industrial RD 94 percent of respondents indicated that they expected RD approximately 70 percent of managers indicated that they will not change the dollar value of licenses that they acquire or produce in the coming year. …