Transforming Inventions into Innovations as a Major Concern of the Philips Research Laboratories Management: A Historical Perspective

Vries, Marc J. de

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“…After WWI, the Philips Research Labs found itself to be an autonomous lab in the midst of autonomous product divisions (Blanken, 1998). That caused a variety of transfer problems (de Vries, 1999), as we will also see later. Favorable economic circumstances allowed for a great deal of free research, whereby the lab did not suffer from the problems of its main European competitor, the Siemens Labs, where researchers' work in certain areas was forbidden by the Americans (Pfisterer, 1987;Trendelenburg, 1975).…”

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deVries¹

2000

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2000

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“…They operated during three different (reconstructed) historical periods that reflect both the management ideas and the changes the Nat.Lab. played for the Philips company as a whole (De Vries, 1999). In the first period, 1914-1946 (in which Gilles Holst was the Director), the Nat.Lab.…”

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“…The way in which the research activities were integrated into the company, changed in the post -war period (De Vries, 1999). In the period under Holst's directorate, the Nat.Lab.…”

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2007

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Purpose -This paper seeks to deal with the history of Research and Development (R&D) management. It takes the history of the R&D Department of the Royal Philips Electronics of The Netherlands as an example to unravel the dynamics behind industrial R&D management. Design/methodology/approach -This paper is based upon historical and theoretical studies on industrial R&D institutions and research cultures. Findings -The paper proposes that the directors of the Philips R&D Department continually shaped and reshaped the organization in order to retain researchers with creative ideas, and to stimulate innovativeness. The R&D-management was the outcome of a search process that comprehended a mixture of scientific and industrial (management) skills, knowledge and expertise, which together shaped an industrial research culture. One of the most difficult questions for the research managers was to find a balance between the professional status and motives of individual researchers on the one hand and the Philips company production strategy on the other. Over the years, the research leaders stimulated individual creativity in their own way, taking specific business and economic circumstances into account. They operated during different historical periods that reflect their management ideas. Originality/value -Nowadays, the Philips research takes place at the High Tech Campus. Its philosophy is based upon Chesbrough's open innovation paradigm. In the discussion of this paper, it is argued that the history of industrial research teaches that the success of this organization, as in the past, will depend upon the management's ability to find a balance between scientific activities and industrial production.

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Transforming Inventions into Innovations as a Major Concern of the Philips Research Laboratories Management: A Historical Perspective

Cited by 2 publications

References 4 publications

<p>Industrial Research and Development Labs: How They Inform Science and Technology Curricula</p>

<p>Industrial Research and Development Labs: How They Inform Science and Technology Curricula</p>

Managing between science and industry

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