How Should We Measure Research and Development Collaboration Performance?
With the rapid growth of information technology, research and development (R&D) collaboration has become an important issue valued by both academic and industry recently. It argues that R&D collaboration is the application of concurrent engineering and includes collaboration between business functions within an organization or cooperation with customers, suppliers, research institutes, laboratories, universities and so on. Previous researchers have indicated R&D collaboration is a means to accelerate the commercialization of new technologies, create new business, launch the new products to the market quickly, shorten the product life cycle, reduce risk, uncertainty and cost, etc. Numerous studies focus on the benefits, importance, risk and disadvantage of R&D cooperation or forms of collaboration. Yet the performance indicator of R&D collaboration has received only scarce attention. It is believed that managers will not be able to efficiently manage new product development without a clear performance indicator while implementing R&D collaboration. Consequently, this study investigates how to measure R&D collaboration performance. We apply literature content analysis to extensively review journal articles and the R&D collaboration project in Department of Industrial Technology in Taiwan. The finings demonstrate that the economic beneficial result of R&D performance or R&D collaboration is similar. Customer, supplier participation and the efficiency of information system seem the key performance indicators of R&D collaboration. These findings lead to important implication for conducting R&D collaboration to accelerate innovation.
R&D R&D Collaboration Determinants
YAO Chenyen WU Fengshang
Graduate Institute of Technology and innovation Management, Chengchi University, Taiwan
国际会议
The Fifth InternationalSymposium on Management of Technology(ISMOT07)(第五届技术与创新管理国际研讨会)
杭州
英文
1179-1181
2007-06-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）