バテル記念研究所と契約研究

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Battelle, the world's largest independent research organization, with the 1997-year revenue of $950 Million and 7,000 or more staff, has entered the Japanese marketplace in 1970, with Mitsubishi Corporation as the agent. Battelle is well known for the development and commercialization of xerography. It is also known to have developed and implemented the concept of contract research, which has given birth to organizations specialized in providing R&D services, so-called CRO (Contract Research Organization). Because of industrial companies' interests in outsourcing of their R&D work for higher efficiency, the CRO business, particularly in the USA, has been steadily growing and is now expected to increase substantially towards the year 2,000. Battelle over the past decade has completed its restructuring with continuous renewal of technical resources focused on core technologies identified in response to the market requirements. The strategic view is on generation and acquisition of innovative technical ideas that create intellectual properties. During such restructuring Battelle business in Japan inevitably showed down. Like other CRO's, Battelle is going through re-identifying itself to be more responsive to the rapidly changing business environment and clients' needs/satisfaction by providing value-added multi-disciplinary services with high creativity.
研究・技術計画学会の論文
1999-10-01