Evaluation And Performance Measurement Of Research And Development Techniques And Perspectives For Multilevel Analysis Vittorio Chiesa by Vittorio Chiesa, Federico Frattini 9781847209481, 9781849801942, 1847209483, 1849801940 instant download after payment.

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 to look 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.