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The state of new product market research in the U.S. compared with Europe

This paper examines the current state of New Product Market Research in the U.S. and compares it with the state in Europe, from three basic perspectives: - New Product Research Techniques; - New Product/Market Opportunities; and the Stature of New...

Catalogue: AMA/ESOMAR Conference 1979: It Won't Work Here

Author: M. R. E. Normile

March 1, 1979

The state of new product research in Europe

This paper is an assessment of the state of new product research in Europe seen through the eyes of a director of an agency supplying research services in the European market. The author starts with some qualifying remarks as to the validity of the...

Catalogue: AMA/ESOMAR Conference 1979: It Won't Work Here

Author: Brian C. Pymont

March 1, 1979

Product innovation

The pharmaceutical industry, as we all know, is subject to increasing social and environmental pressures. The effects of these pressures - and the way industry responds to them over the next decade - is the theme of this ESOMAR conference. There are...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: The Changing Environment For Pharmaceutical Marketing

Author: Alan Sheppard

February 1, 1979

Use of the shape technique for forecasting pharmaceutical markets

SHAPE is a comparatively new forecasting technique which was not commercially available at the time our original work was undertaken. This technique has certain features which potentially make it an attractive forecasting technique for use with new...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Foresight Or Hindsight?

Author: Hugh Robert Stammers

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

March 1, 1977

New product registration and introduction

It is not intended in this paper to review all the requirements for registration or licensing of medicines, because they are well documented elsewhere and laid down in directives by government agencies, in different countries. Equally, the purpose is...

Catalogue: Seminar 1976: The Future Of The Animal Health Care Market

Author: Peter D.G. Bowen

November 24, 1976

Fiesta

This paper describes a comprehensive, Europe-wide program of marketing research carried out over a period of four years to assist development of an entirely new Ford small car: Fiesta. The research program, which was an integral part of the car's...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1976: Research That Works For Today's Marketing Problems

Authors: R. P. Smith, C. A. Molloy

September 1, 1976

Towards the elimination of risk from investment in new products

This paper sets out to show how a technique which was originally developed simply as a means of eliminating the fundamentally unacceptable product before it incurred substantial losses in test market, has shown itself to be capable of much more. The...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1976: Research That Works For Today's Marketing Problems

Authors: D. Reay, Brian C. Pymont, Patrick G. M. Standen

September 1, 1976

From a survey of market needs to the designing of a total product (French)

In the light of a series of market surveys begun by the SNCF in 1967, there emerged as a common factor: the second- class passengers' deep dissatisfaction with the service provided. Since the SNCF was also facing the prospect of extensive renewal of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1976: Research That Works For Today's Marketing Problems

Authors: P. Rapello, Jacques Chauvineau

June 15, 1976

The validation of marketing models

This paper is an attempt to discuss the concept of validation when applied to marketing models. It is suggested that "validity" is a highly complex notion that the marketing scientists inherited from various other disciplines. Unfortunately,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1975: Market Modelling

Authors: Claude Sanchez, Jean-Philippe Faivre

June 1, 1975