Chapter 9Working with Contract Research Organizations
Why Buy in R&D Services?
A company that exists to provide services to other organizations and whose 'products' are knowledge-based, the fruits of scientific and/or technological research, is generally known as a contract research organization (or CRO). Very often they will serve a niche sector, as the following UK examples illustrate:
- Paint Research Association
- Electrical Research Association
- The Welding Institute
- Motor Industry Research Association
- The Forensic Science Service (law enforcement)
- AEA Technology (nuclear industry)
- Nirex (radioactive waste industry)
- Scott Polar Research Institute
- Building Research Establishment.
Other organizations serve a broader range of customers, but always ...
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