After conducting research and surfing the web it is rather obvious that there are many, many problems in the business world. Every day there are more and more problems. Which is a rather significant reason why I chose my topic on R&D research. I came across a small article titled One Small Step for R&D Spending. I started reading not even knowing much about the topic, when after a few paragraphs I realized that this is a very important "conflict" if you will, in the business world. Research and Development is the way in which our business problems will be solved.
Although America is still dominated by Microsoft, the increase in budgets by multinational companies in places like Europe and Asia has brought the U.S attention to the question of is R&D putting in enough or keeping up with other nations and the world economy. The reason Microsoft has and still does dominate the U.S
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