After the crisis being classified as completely weathered, Germany is apparently in a flourishing economy. This makes future investments interesting, however, political uncertainty and its economic impact invoke fears of another recession. Many companies have already noticed that research and development provides a lot of investment potential. Thus, the challenge is not to identify required changes of business management, but to analyse and evaluate them in compliance with economic aspects. This is the only way to assure long-term protection of contracts and business success through maintenance and sustainable improvement of research and development. This article presents an approach to adequate optimization of research and development, which can be especially applied situations with scarce human resources.