An organizational decision support approach to R and D project selection

Research and development project selection is an important task for organizations with research and development project management. It is a complicated multi-stage decision-making process which involves groups of decision makers. Current research on R and D project selection mainly focuses on mathematical decision models and their applications, but ignores the organizational aspect of the decision-making process. To extend the current research, the paper proposes an organizational decision support framework for R and D project selection. Based on this, an organizational DSS has been developed and used for selection of projects in the National Natural Science Foundation of China. The proposed framework aims at modeling the process of R and D project selection at an organizational level. Also, it supports the whole life cycle of the decision-making process.

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