TY - GEN
T1 - Research and development evaluation at an early stage using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
AU - Kamoda, Hiroki
AU - Sugawa, Shigetoshi
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Problems seem to be emerged that the outcomes of research and development (R & D) do not relate to new products and profit in the manufacturing industries. Generally, the R & D targets and their specifications cannot be clearly set by engineers because they need to design new product and its specifications several years in advance. At an early stage of R & D which is important to build competitive priority, an evaluation method securely connecting the R & D with new product and profit is needed. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), expected to be an effective decision-making support tool, was applied to evaluate R & D themes at an early stage. The correlation was obtained between the R & D results and AHP scores. The AHP was found to be an effective tool for decision-making of R & D as a gate of each early stage.
AB - Problems seem to be emerged that the outcomes of research and development (R & D) do not relate to new products and profit in the manufacturing industries. Generally, the R & D targets and their specifications cannot be clearly set by engineers because they need to design new product and its specifications several years in advance. At an early stage of R & D which is important to build competitive priority, an evaluation method securely connecting the R & D with new product and profit is needed. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), expected to be an effective decision-making support tool, was applied to evaluate R & D themes at an early stage. The correlation was obtained between the R & D results and AHP scores. The AHP was found to be an effective tool for decision-making of R & D as a gate of each early stage.
KW - Analytic hierarchy process (AHP)
KW - Decision-making
KW - Evaluation
KW - R & D stage
KW - Uncertainty
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U2 - 10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654584
DO - 10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654584
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:56749107514
SN - 9781424423309
T3 - Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology, ICMIT
SP - 1444
EP - 1449
BT - Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology, ICMIT
T2 - 4th IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology, ICMIT
Y2 - 21 September 2008 through 24 September 2008
ER -