Evaluation and Performance Measurement of Research and Development: Techniques and Perspectives for Multi-Level Analysis - Hardcover

Chiesa, Vittorio; Frattini, Federico

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847209483 ISBN 13: 9781847209481

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

This book develops and illustrates a comprehensive, multi-level framework for the evaluation of industrial research and development (R&D) activities and the measurement of their performance. The framework encompasses a set of hierarchical, interrelated levels at which R&D evaluation and performance measurement could be undertaken.

This enlightening book focuses on the single industrial firm to study performance measurement of R&D functions, projects and individual researchers or engineers. It also addresses R&D evaluation from the point of view of financial markets, with a focus on the relationship between R&D investments and the value of the traded firm. The book broadens tin scope to study the role of technology platforms as R&D coordination mechanisms and also looks at the evaluation of R&D policies.

This book will be warmly welcomed by researchers and postgraduate students in disciplines concerned with innovation management, technology policy, and finance who wish to gain an updated overview of R&D evaluation and performance measurement as well as exploring different units of analysis.

About this title

About the Author

Vittorio Chiesa, Full Professor of R&D Strategy and Organisation and Federico Frattini, Assistant Professor, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847209483
• ISBN 13: 9781847209481
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320