Evaluating R&D Impacts: Methods and Practice

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Evaluation Methods

   1. Methods for Evaluating the Return on R&D Investments

      • Albert N. Link

      Pages 1-16

   2. The Use of Case Studies in R&D Impact Evaluations

      • Gordon Kingsley

      Pages 17-42

   3. Bibliometrics as a Tool for Analysis of R&D Impacts

      • Julia Melkers

      Pages 43-61

   4. Co-Word Analysis

      • Ronald N. Kostoff

      Pages 63-78

   5. Peer Review and Evaluation of R&D Impacts

      • Barry Bozeman

      Pages 79-98

   6. Patents and the Evaluation of R&D

      • Maria Papadakis

      Pages 99-121

   7. Operations Research Contributions to Evaluation of R&D Projects

      • Stuart Bretschneider

      Pages 123-153

3. Evaluation in Practice

   1. Evaluating Federal R&D in Canada

      • Alain J. Barbarie

      Pages 155-162

   2. Evaluating Federal R&D in the United States

      • Ron Kostoff

      Pages 163-178

   3. Use of Quantitative Methods to Support Research Decisions in Business and Government

      • David Roessner

      Pages 179-205

   4. Evaluating the Industrial Relevance of Public R&D Laboratories

      • Robert Dalpe

      Pages 207-228

   5. U.S. Evaluation of Strategic Research: Closing the Gap with Europe and Japan

      • Susan E. Cozzens

      Pages 229-244

   6. The Temporal Dimension of R&D Evaluation: Incorporating Spin-Off Benefits

      • Marilyn A. Brown, C. Robert Wilson

      Pages 245-262

   7. Criteria for Evaluating Research Projects and Portfolios

      • Harvey A. Averch

      Pages 263-277

   8. Annotated Bibliography on Evaluation of Research, 1985–1990

      • H. Averch

      Pages 279-300

4. Back Matter

   Pages 301-304

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A critical issue in research and development (R&D) management is the structure and use of evaluative efforts for R&D programs. The book introduces the different methods that may be used in R&D evaluation and then illustrates these methods by describing actual evaluation in practice using those methods.
The book is divided into two sections. The first section provides an introduction and details on several popular methodologies used in the evaluation of research and development activities. The second half of the book focuses on evaluation in practice and is comprised of several chapters offering the perspectives of individuals in different types of organizations. The book concludes with an annotated bibliography of selected R&D evaluation literature, focusing on post-1985 literature, on research evaluation.

• evaluation
• management
• operations research
• research & development (R&D)

• Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA

  Barry Bozeman

• University of Alaska Southeast, Syracuse, USA

  Julia Melkers

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