Ricardo Group can be as technical as they need to be. Ricardo plc offers engineering, design, and strategic consulting services to clients in the automotive, transport, and energy industries. Ricardo plc services are focused primarily on research, engineering, and product development offering expertise in engine design and related powertrain systems. Ricardo has expanded into the new energy, power generation, and infrastructure planning markets. Strategic consulting services cover such topics as product development, manufacturing, and supply chain management. Ricardo Group's global clientele includes automakers, component and systems manufacturers, government agencies, and industry regulatory bodies.

Rockbridge Associates provides custom market research services in such areas as customer satisfaction, positioning, pricing, product design and development, and business technology applications. Rockbridge Associates, Inc. conducts specialized research utilizing focus groups, interviews, surveys over the phone, on the Web, and in person. Clients have come from the technology, financial services, telecommunications, energy, and travel industries, including Motorola, Capital One, and AOL. Company president Charles Colby started Rockbridge Associates in 1992.

Roke Manor Research, a subsidiary of Siemens AG, is a contract R&D company that offers a host of technologies and services with a focus on communications and electronic sensors. Roke Manor Research Limited more than 400 engineers provide services including feasibility studies, design, and high-volume manufacturing logistics for companies that make radio devices, Internet systems, and electronic sensors. Roke Manor Research also offers low-volume manufacturing services in-house. Siemens accounts for a large portion of sales, but customers include other companies as well as governments. Roke Manor Research, named for a manor that lies on its 22-acre grounds, was founded in 1956 and sold to Siemens in 1991.

RONIN Development is an independent market research and marketing consulting firm that focuses on the technology and telecommunications sectors. RONIN Development Corporation conducts survey research on brand loyalty, buying trends, and marketing effectiveness, and it offers data analysis and modeling services for its clients. RONIN Development Corporation also has survey panels made up of executives and experts from the health care industry, as well as corporate technology officers. RONIN has offices in New Jersey and in London. CEO Harry Bunn founded the agency in 1986.

rsc THE QUALITY MEASUREMENT COMPANY has been helping clients fine tune their advertising messages since 1968. Its ARSgroup provides market research and competitive intelligence from more than 16 million consumer responses and conducts about 40,000 tests worldwide. rsc THE QUALITY MEASUREMENT COMPANY specializes in gauging the effectiveness of advertisements based on such benchmarks as emotional response, recall, and persuasive impact. rsc THE QUALITY MEASUREMENT COMPANY also measures consumer demand analytics for manufacturers and retailers. Clients have included Proctor & Gamble, Wal-Mart, and Danone. rsc THE QUALITY MEASUREMENT COMPANY owns offices in the Asia Pacific, Latin America, and the US.

RTI Laboratories, Inc.’s mission is to be the recognized leader in supplying laboratory and consulting services in the fields of chemistry and material science. RTI Laboratories, Inc. scientists performs chemical analyses of samples to determine the contents of drinking water, hazardous waste, metals, and soil. RTI Laboratories, Inc. also tests oils, paints, and lubricants. RTI Laboratories' services help companies dealing with environmental, chemical, and metallurgical materials determine how to use, generate, and dispose of them. RTI Laboratories, Inc. has performed work for both public and private sector clients, such as the US Environmental Protection Agency, Tetra Tech, and Nalco, as well as several major automotive companies, including Ford and General Motors.

RWS Holdings provides intellectual property support services such as patent translations and technical searches for clients in the medical, pharmaceutical, chemical, aerospace, and telecommunications industries. RWS Holdings PLC was formed after a reverse takeover of Health Media Group, which provided industry information, education, and technology resources to health care professionals through print publications, CD-ROM, the Web, WAP, and digital TV. RWS Holdings offers technical translation and proofreading services through its Eclipse Translations subsidiary.

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is a research center at the University of California, San Diego. Founded in 1985, SDSC supports research in science, industry, and academia, using high-performance computing and the latest advances in computational science. SDSC also leads the National Partnership for Advanced Computation Infrastructure (NPACI), a group of some 40 institutions engaged in creating a nationwide computer grid for analyzing and sharing research data.

Sarnoff is less well known than the products it develops. Sarnoff Corporation provides contract research for government and corporate clients in the fields of electronics, biomedicine, and information technology. Sarnoff licenses the products it develops, which have included color television, the liquid crystal display, and disposable hearing aids. Current areas of research include optoelectronics, biotechnology, digital video, semiconductor technology, and wireless communications. Sarnoff also commercializes its technologies by starting and spinning off new companies. Founded in 1942 as RCA Laboratories, Sarnoff became a subsidiary of research institute SRI International in 1987.

Scarborough Research provides marketing research studies for 80 local markets that delve into more than 2,000 consumer research topics such as lifestyle, home improvement, demographics, and travel. Scarborough Research more than 3,500 clients include the media, ad agencies, and sports teams. Scarborough Research specialized services include Hispanic market research and custom analytics (helping clients better read customer data and make decisions based on that data). Scarborough Research is a joint venture of marketing research firms Arbitron and The Nielsen Company. Scarborough Research was founded in 1975 and was originally developed as a newspaper measurement tool.

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