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RQ Innovative Efficiency and Firm Value | Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis | Cambridge Core » RQ Innovative Efficiency and Firm Value - Volume 57 Issue 5 Cambridge.org

The Imperative of Productive R&D » In 2019, the United States spent $55 billion on defense R&D. We know surprisingly little about what that funding has achieved. We have no… Syndicate708.medium.com

AstraZeneca boosts COVID portfolio with RQ Bio deal » AstraZeneca moved to bolster its COVID-19 portfolio of antibodies on Tuesday with a $157 million licensing deal for experimental therapies developed by newly-launched biotech RQ Bio. Reuters.com

R&D All-Stars: The CNBC RQ 50 » Think you know the market's innovators? CNBC has an exclusive look at 50 R&D leaders turning corporate creativity into a shareholder edge. Cnbc.com

Factbox: The Global Hawk drone shot down by Iran » Iran on Thursday shot down a U.S. military drone it said was on a spy mission over its territory. Washington said the aircraft was targeted in international air space in "an unprovoked attack." Reuters.com

The Trillion-Dollar R&D Fix » Reprint: R1205D How does a company know what kind of return it’s getting from R&D? Is it better at R&D than the competition? How much should it be spending and what can it do to improve the effectiveness of those investments? Existing measures of R&D effectiveness don’t answer any of those questions. In this article Anne Marie Knott, a professor at Washington University’s Olin School of Management, presents a new metric for R&D productivity: RQ, short for research quotient. It allows managers not only to estimate the effectiveness of R&D investment relative to the competition but also to see how changes in R&D expenditure affect the bottom line and, most important, a company’s market value. According to her research, if the top 20 firms traded on U.S. exchanges had increased their 2010 R&D investment using the RQ method, the collective increase in market cap would have been a whopping $1 trillion. The longer-run benefits are potentially even greater because the measure allows companies to more closely Hbr.org

r/IBO on Reddit: What do you think of my IB BM IA RQ? (Details included) » Posted by u/Rezlem- - 2 votes and 3 comments Reddit.com