February 27, 2012 - IMM@BUCT

The data, which include government
R&D spending, indicate that U.S. federal
government research spending will slip
1.6% in 2012. However, academic funding
will rise 2.9%, and industrial outlays will
increase by 3.8%.
Published in December 2011, the report
takes note of the rising share of global R&D
by China and India. Although the U.S. continues
to lead other countries by performing
almost one-third of global R&D, Asian
countries as a group fund 36.7% of it. China
has rapidly increased its share from 12.0%
in 2010 to an expected 14.2% in 2012, and
India’s share has grown from 2.6% to 2.9%.
Over the same time period, the U.S. share
has slipped from 32.8% to 31.1%.
Another annual survey takes into account
research attitudes among a variety
of medium-sized to large U.S. industrial
companies. According to the Industrial
Research Institute ’s (IRI) “2012 R&D
Trends Forecast,” 41% of 104 respondents
plan a 2.5% or greater increase in R&D
spending, about 53% plan to hold spending
at about the same level, and 6% plan to
make cuts.
R&D managers who responded to the
survey during the summer of 2011 “revealed
steady optimism regarding their
budget outlook,” says Richard R. Antcliff,
chair of IRI’s research-on-research team.
As a result, “R&D hiring remains positive,”
he notes, “with an intensified focus on retaining
top technical talent.”
Weighing heavily on the minds of R&D
leaders are ways to effectively manage innovation.
Aware that their efforts are often
the catalysts for prosperity and growth,
many leaders are concerned about “showing
the payoff on innovation to win senior
management support and finding the right
balance of technology and innovation investments,”
Antcliff writes in the trends
forecast. ◾
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underground coal mines, Muzyka says.
New products like this one helped Du-
Pont’s sales in China increase by more
than 80%, to $3.3 billion, between
2009 and 2011.
“We are concerned about the environment
for patent protection in developing
countries,” Muzyka tells C&EN.
But “IP challenges exist in both the developed
and the developing world.” Du-
Pont has had to deal with a number of
well-publicized IP theft cases in the U.S.
The most recent one involved charges
that five people, including two former
DuPont employees and an employee
of a Chinese firm, stole DuPont trade
secrets for producing the white pigment
titanium dioxide (C&EN, Feb. 13,
page 7).
Muzyka, who spent four years as
president of DuPont China, concedes
that operating in China has its IP challenges.
“You have to manage IP security
the best way you can,” he says. But
Muzyka cautions that “companies that
withdraw from China because they have
had a bad experience make a mistake.
Without risk, there can be no reward.”
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