Sounding off to the previous posts. I think that R&D and Quality Assurance/Compliance conflicts in most cases due to the differences in the role they play and the overall objective they need to meet. Quality assurance/compliance dictates whether each or several procedures/processes are within company or regulatory agency guidelines to ensure that the product is doing what its suppose to do and safe. On the other hand, R&D is set on innovation and improving current technology and meet certain deadlines on each phase of R&D. This might mean innovating procedures and processes as well to get there; and this is when the problem arises between the two. They might disagree on these subjects because quality assurance/compliance has to set new checks for it in addition to existing regulations to ensure that its safe and won’t cause any problems in the future.