Bayer

it’s early successes “were the results of an evolutionary process in which legal and economic as well as scientific developments played important roles. Major components of this process included the opening of a main scientific laboratory in 1891; the building up of a research infrastructure to support the main laboratory, including a library, a literary department, a patent bureau, a control laboratory, a training laboratory, and an experimental dye house; and the increasing focus of management on the organization of research and on the introduction of related managerial techniques, including labor contract regulations, financial incentives, conferences, regular progress reports, and creation of the role of research administrator” (Lesch III, 41). At IG Farbenr testing period for new drugs averaged one year (43).