Collaborative R&D Initiatives Will Help Grow Tomorrow's Technologies

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Collaborative R&D Initiatives Will Help Grow Tomorrow's Technologies

 The industry needs innovations in manufacturing processes and products. The forest products industry's investment in R&D has been declining as a result of low profit margins and the cost of developing new technologies. Collaborative R&D with cost-sharing among the companies on broad industry technology needs is the best way forward. The forest products industry's Agenda 2020 Technology Alliance is the organization best positioned to provide the nexus of industry, government, and academia to advance the industry's research priorities.

Agenda 2020 promotes and encourages collaborative R&D as a public/private partnership, an approach increasingly encouraged by government agencies and other funding mechanisms. Agenda 2020's collaborative approach also provides rich networking opportunities among experts in the fields of most interest to the industry. There is no other organization in the US taking this broad view of what the industry needs technologically to succeed, and how to drive progress.

The central focus of a new initiative, Agenda 2020, is to promote and encourage collaborative R&D as a public/private partnership.

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