A driving force that has enabled society to progress and this can also said to be true of the markets: through the creation of new goods, new tendencies have often developed which had previously been unthinkable before the advent of certain inventions. Positive progress has resulted in the improvement of everyday life, so that “research and development” must still be and indeed, increasingly so the basis on which to base the development of businesses, which even in these difficult and turbulent years cannot and must not abandon the backing of the ideas that will give life to the brainwaves of tomorrow.
Charles Franklin Kettering, who was vice president of General Motors and manager of its research laboratories until 1947 as well as being the inventor of the starter motor which freed motorists from the strenuous use of the starter handle, once said: “We should all worry about the future, because that’s where we will spend the rest of our lives”.
