Hi everybody
I'm studying on the R&D project selection, as you know there are many attractiveness criteria to evaluate and rank the projects and proposals over each other. Each criteria can be measured by some sub-criteria.
The main question of mine is what terms, questions or sub-criteria can be used or are being used in pioneer organizations (like DARPA etc.) to measure the degree of innovation in various proposals and to decide upon these sub-criteria that for example Project A is more innovative than Project B?
Thanks all friends in advance!
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Your question is very challenging.
I don't have a direct answer.
If innovation does not show social progress, it cannot be considered innovation. Imagine the magic formula for cancer hidden in a chemist's drawer. It is innovative, all right, but it is not benefiting the society. The best way to measure it in R&D projects, I think, is to include pilot project applications with quantified outputs and results and relative indicators, - depending on what you want to achieve in the first place.
Dear Behrang,
Have a look at the Innovation project tool (IPT).
The paper presents the innovation project tool (IPT) which aims at outlining common characteristics of innovation projects in terms of project management and using these specifics for creating a tool for categorisation of innovation projects. The IPT might be useful for researchers and practitioners alike in their management in order to prevent them from making mistakes, to decrease unpredictability and ambiguity of such projects and to improve innovation projects’ performance and success. The IPT can be also used as a checklist for categorisation of innovation projects; as a pre-defined watch list during project work; a risk management tool for better analysing and assessing project risks and integration management supporting tool for better scoping all possible ingredients in innovation projects. The IPT provided 51 specifics of innovation projects with ranking of their specificity and impact on innovation projects. The research is based on two iteration interviews with 60 highly experienced project managers from different industries.
If the paper matches your needs, just ask for the full text, I am at your disposal.
BR
Zornitsa
Article Innovation project tool for outlining innovation projects
I'm highly recommend this great research (PhD thesis) on nature of government-supported radical technological innovations:
Article The Value of Vision in Radical Technological Innovation
or https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:mk388mb2729/Carleton%20thesis%20DARPA-augmented.pdf
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