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Introduction
Organizations are increasingly integrating the diverse backgrounds, knowledge, and expertise of employees within work-team structures. As...
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WASHINGTON -- The Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) today became the first product development partnership (PDP) to contribute intellectual property...
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Product development may be understood generically as all the things that happen from the initial conception or invention of a product to the p...
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Uncertainty in new product development (NPD) planning embraces market, creative, technological, and process dimensions to a much greater extent than in non-NPD project planning. Yet, NPD management is becoming increasingly decentralized, both within the firm and across the supply chain. Hence, planning for NPD uncertainty often results in path-dependent scenarios cutting across the strategic, tactical, and operational levels of planning. To coordinate this resulting complexity, we propose a stochastic hierarchical product development planning framework with multiple recourses, i.e., corrective actions, to maximize performance across a firm's entire NPD program. We also argue the necessity for a fourth planning level, the infrastructural, that reestablishes norms for market projections, ...
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Partners with Non-Profit Groups, Focusing on Diseases of the Developing World
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- Quintiles announced today that it has ...
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COLLEGE PARK, Md., Feb. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program (MIPS) -- an initiative of the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech) at the University of Maryland -- is authorizing 16 new high-technology and biotechnology product development grants worth $3.7 million.
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There are two approaches to reflecting a customer's point of view in new product development (NPD). One is a customer-following approach that utilizes expressed consumer needs. The other is a customer-leading approach that focuses on consumers' latent needs. Currently, the number of customer-leading approaches is increasing rapidly through design-oriented NPD. This case study of LG Electronics' Chocolate Phone reveals a market-oriented frame of mind. From a design point of view, it is important to select talented designers and combine them with market insight and communication skills. From a development perspective, strong technological capabilities, optimization of design functions, and strong managerial support are all central to success. From a marketing point of view, key factors in...
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LYON, France & MADRID -- Flamel Technologies SA (NASDAQ: FLML) and Digna Biotech SL today announced that the two companies have entered into a joint d...
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