This article undertakes to explain the importance of research and technology development for businesses nowadays, besides the differences between each aspect within a period of research and development, and some applications is evident in the economic and industrial sectors, where you can mainly see the importance of research and technological development to create new scenarios, new products, new technologies, new processes, among others. All this as a support and capacity for decision-making of enterprises or service entities also can envision that research and development is an investment in the future of the company; Companies that do not invest enough in R & D often suffer from obsolete production lines and overtaken by their competitors, hence the importance of the study and application of these tools.