RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT IN THE ENTREPRENEUR SECTOR

Research and research and development exercised by an enterprises unit in the preproduction preparation plays an important role of a production accelerator: it ensures finishing touches of innovation programs converted into specific specimes, projects, models amd product prototypes. Present dispersion of research and development basis and new enterpreneurial environment and market conditions coming into existence need a principle change in the existing research-development activity, to man it with a creative staff, to rebuild its structure, to furnish it with the capacities required. Research and development cannot mean just management of production and technology innovations: it is primarily a commercial such of new products, processes and systems judged by the market, by the buyers. The paper points out some rational elements of Japanese research and development and some experiences and knowledge of research and development in the EU countries, in the French and Belgium firms especially. The rational points and experiences may be also used under our conditions: latest scientific and technological knowledge must be respected, of course, in the specific area. Research and development similarly like the remaining business activities must be properly organized, planned and managed and adequate conditions of their further existence must be created.