R&D as well as quality comes with there own set of goal. Goal of R&d is to develop and innovate new or current technology in order to strength the position of company in the market. While quality has a goal to get the products developed by R&D to be approved and certified by as many regulatory bodies as possible in order to increase the trust of the consumer in the product. I believe that there is nothing quality department can do to help R&D department in terms of testing or in terms of number of test to be done because ultimately what quality people are asking is something which specified by the regulatory body. Its is not something specified m=by the quality department so I think if R&D department co-operates with the quality department there is no issue in it.