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# **Blog: In the spotlights**

[![Tracking R&D time: why Excel puts your funding at risk](https://laby.io/_ipx/_/images/blog/6/tracking-times-via-Excel-risk-to-funding.png)Tracking R&D time: why Excel puts your funding at risk](https://laby.io/blog/tracking-rd-time-why-excel-puts-your-funding-at-risk)

[Finance Project management<h2>**Tracking R&D time: why Excel puts your funding at risk**</h2>Tracking time spent using Excel poses a risk to your funding. Find out why it lacks reliability and how to secure and better manage your scientific projects.⏱ 5 min-3/16/2026](https://laby.io/blog/tracking-rd-time-why-excel-puts-your-funding-at-risk)

## **All our articles**

[![Scientist analyzing data in an Excel spreadsheet showing time tracking for research and development.](https://laby.io/_ipx/_/images/blog/6/tracking-times-via-Excel-risk-to-funding.png) Tracking R&D time: why Excel puts your funding at risk](https://laby.io/blog/tracking-rd-time-why-excel-puts-your-funding-at-risk)

Finance

Project management

### [Tracking R&D time: why Excel puts your funding at risk](https://laby.io/blog/tracking-rd-time-why-excel-puts-your-funding-at-risk)

Tracking time spent using Excel poses a risk to your funding. Find out why it lacks reliability and how to secure and better manage your scientific projects.

⏱ 5 min-3/16/2026

[![Wall of colorful post-it notes with light bulbs, illustrating the abundance of ideas in the laboratory but also the lack of digitalization and organization to exploit them.](https://laby.io/_ipx/_/images/blog/5/innovation-post-it-manque-digitalisation-laboratoire.png) How laboratory organization stimulates innovation](https://laby.io/blog/how-lab-organization-drives-innovation)

Organization

### [How laboratory organization stimulates innovation](https://laby.io/blog/how-lab-organization-drives-innovation)

Discover the risks of a traditional organization, the benefits of digitalization, and concrete solutions for putting innovation back at the heart of scientific activities.

⏱ 5 min-8/18/2025

[![Senior scientist in laboratory working on laptop with research data.](https://laby.io/_ipx/_/images/blog/4/ScientistWorkingWithLaptop.jpg) ELN: definition and benefits for optimizing your laboratory research](https://laby.io/blog/eln-definition-and-benefit-to-optimize-research)

Digital

### [ELN: definition and benefits for optimizing your laboratory research](https://laby.io/blog/eln-definition-and-benefit-to-optimize-research)

Discover what an ELN is and how this digital tool helps laboratories improve efficiency and accelerate their research projects.

⏱ 5 min-4/14/2025

[![A redheaded scientist sitting on a test bench looking to the side and smiling.](https://laby.io/_ipx/_/images/blog/3/Banner.png) R&D companies rely on digital tools to increase their competitiveness](https://laby.io/blog/digital-tools-competitiveness)

Digital

### [R&D companies rely on digital tools to increase their competitiveness](https://laby.io/blog/digital-tools-competitiveness)

Scientific teams are abandoning traditional methods to turn to way more efficient digital tools.

⏱ 5 min-2/27/2025

[![Wooden blocks containing one letter per block. The blocks form the word research.](https://laby.io/_ipx/_/images/blog/2/BannerResearch.png) Research through Experimental Development](https://laby.io/blog/experimental-development-research)

CIR

### [Research through Experimental Development](https://laby.io/blog/experimental-development-research)

This approach, eligible for the Research Tax Credit (CIR), contributes to research and the creation of prototypes to accelerate the market launch of new technologies.

⏱ 5 min-10/22/2024

[![Notebook with the word "eligibility" written on it and a numbered list underneath.](https://laby.io/_ipx/_/images/blog/1/BannerEligibility.jpg) The fundamentals of the Research Tax Credit (CIR)](https://laby.io/blog/cir)

CIR

### [The fundamentals of the Research Tax Credit (CIR)](https://laby.io/blog/cir)

Discover which research activities are eligible for the CIR to support your company in its R&D operations. The CIR is a declarative principle that will be deducted from your tax base.

⏱ 4 min-10/8/2024