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Ch 35 5.8 Research and development (HL): complete notes
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Topics in this chapter
- What you must be able to do
- Research and development (R&D) AO3
- Why R&D is important to a business
- Evaluating R&D: money and judgement AO3, AO4
- Developing goods and services for unmet needs AO2
- Protecting the results: intellectual property AO2
- Innovation: incremental and disruptive AO2
- Applying it to a case: writing the answer
- Tools used in this topic
“I can” checklist: what you must be able to do
- I can evaluate the importance of R&D for a given business, using numbers and judgement.
- I can explain why developing goods and services for unmet needs (known and latent) matters.
- I can explain how copyrights, patents and trademarks protect intellectual property.
- I can distinguish incremental from disruptive innovation and give examples.
- I can calculate R&D intensity, expected value, payback and simple descriptive statistics.
What is inside the full chapter notes
- Concept notes with 9 worked examples (all numbers checked)
- Diagrams: unmet-needs grid, patent timeline, disruptive-innovation sales chart, R&D bar chart
- Tools: decision tree, descriptive statistics
- Common mistakes and a command-term "How to score" box
- 12 Quick-check questions, explained
- Paper 1 style case, Section A parts and a 10-mark Section B question with markbands
- Paper 2 HL style quantitative question set with mark scheme
- Quick reference sheet and "I can" checklist
What you get in the pack
- All 36 topics of IB Diploma Business Management for students taking Standard Level or Higher Level (first assessment 2024): what a business is, business entities, objectives, stakeholders, growth, multinationals, human resource management, organizational structure, leadership, motivation, culture, communication, industrial relations, sources of finance, costs and revenues, final accounts, ratio analysis, cash flow, investment appraisal, budgets, marketing planning, sales forecasting, market research, the seven Ps, international marketing, operations methods, lean production, location, break-even analysis, crisis management, research and development, management information systems
- Every syllabus statement covered in order, each marked SL or HL, with clear notes, tables and diagrams drawn for these notes
- Worked examples in every topic: calculations and model answers that show how to earn the marks
- Quick-check multiple-choice questions with explained answers, plus original Paper 1 (case study), Paper 2 (quantitative) and, for HL, Paper 3 (social enterprise) style questions with full mark schemes (no past-paper reprints)
- Common mistakes and a how-to-score command-term guide for every topic
- Quick-reference sheet and an "I can" checklist at the end of every topic
- Colour PDF and a black and white copy of every chapter for printing
- Independent notes for IB Diploma students; not endorsed by or affiliated with the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO)
All chapters in this pack
- Ch 1 1.1-1.2 The nature of business and types of business entity
- Ch 2 1.3 Business objectives
- Ch 3 1.4 Stakeholders
- Ch 4 1.5 Growth and evolution
- Ch 5 1.6 Multinational companies (MNCs)
- Ch 6 2.1 Introduction to human resource management
- Ch 7 2.2 Organizational structure
- Ch 8 2.3 Leadership and management
- Ch 9 2.4 Motivation and demotivation
- Ch 10 2.5 Organizational (corporate) culture (HL)
- Ch 11 2.6 Communication
- Ch 12 2.7 Industrial and employee relations (HL)
- Ch 13 3.1 Introduction to finance
- Ch 14 3.2 Sources of finance
- Ch 15 3.3 Costs and revenues
- Ch 16 3.4 Final accounts
- Ch 17 3.5 Profitability and liquidity ratio analysis
- Ch 18 3.6 Efficiency ratio analysis (HL)
- Ch 19 3.7 Cash flow
- Ch 20 3.8 Investment appraisal
- Ch 21 3.9 Budgets (HL)
- Ch 22 4.1 Introduction to marketing
- Ch 23 4.2 Marketing planning
- Ch 24 4.3 Sales forecasting (HL)
- Ch 25 4.4 Market research
- Ch 26 4.5 The seven Ps of the marketing mix
- Ch 27 4.6 International marketing (HL)
- Ch 28 5.1 Introduction to operations management
- Ch 29 5.2 Operations methods
- Ch 30 5.3 Lean production and quality management (HL)
- Ch 31 5.4 Location
- Ch 32 5.5 Break-even analysis
- Ch 33 5.6 Production planning (HL)
- Ch 34 5.7 Crisis management and contingency planning (HL)
- Ch 35 5.8 Research and development (HL)
- Ch 36 5.9 Management information systems (HL)