Learn about research and development (R&D), including how it drives innovation, improves products, and helps keep companies competitive in different industries.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sara Schapiro writes about education, innovation, and public policy. Jan 21, 2025, 03:31pm EST Jan 24, 2025, 03:40pm EST Education ...

In 2022, the combined research and development (R&D) expenditure of the U.S. pharmaceutical industry consisted of more than $100 billion. While this is a significantly expansive market, approximately ...

Scholars and scientists know well the grueling late-night and weekend hours it takes to write a grant proposal. And the bigger the grant, the more hours required. That's why, in 2017, Johns Hopkins ...

Today, district leaders are being asked to make irreversible budget decisions with fewer dollars and less margin for error than ever before. Yet many districts are ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sara Schapiro writes about education, innovation, and public policy. Mar 26, 2025, 05:22pm EDT Mar 27, 2025, 03:17pm EDT Cuts and ...

America’s greatest national security threat is an enemy born from and nurtured by the Pentagon: crippling bureaucracy. It starves the oxygen from good ideas, good people, and good technologies while ...

This year, the Department of Defense was authorized to spend $34 billion more on research and development than it was two years ago and only $18 billion more on procurement of new aircraft and ships.

Scientific innovation has been driving US economic growth for decades. Losing that edge means losing access to the ...