Success factors for R & D projects

Knowledge Creation and Exploitation in Collaborative R&D Projects: Lessons Learned on Success Factors

This paper examines the management of collaborative R&D projects with customers. Prior research on social network theory and the knowledge-based view has identified the conditions of successful collaboration, whereas the actual management of project dynamics has received less attention. This paper addresses this gap in extant research through a case study on the management of inter-firm R&D pro...

Key Success Factors for R&D Project Commercialization

I examine the potential impact of 36 innovation, technology and market characteristics that may determine, at an early stage assessment, the probability that R&D projects will later reach the market. Analysis is based on data from 561 R&D projects developed outside of established organizations. Administrative records contained subjective evaluations of 36 project characteristics conducted at th...

Critical Success Factors for Multidisciplinary Engineering Projects

Project success is an attractive idea but what factors lead to success remains an area of conjecture. In the project management literature the success has often been defined in terms of better control of timescales, budgets and resource planning. Yet these are impoverished terms for conceptualising success, which is both multi-dimensional and contextual. The study explores the perceptions of cr...

Automatic Discovery of Technology Networks for Industrial-Scale R&D IT Projects via Data Mining

Industrial-Scale R&D IT Projects depend on many sub-technologies which need to be understood and have their risks analysed before the project can begin for their success. When planning such an industrial-scale project, the list of technologies and the associations of these technologies with each other is often complex and form a network. Discovery of this network of technologies is time consumi...

Critical Success Factors in Software Projects