RTM Classic: Measuring R&D Productivity

Performance improvement in new product development with effective tools and techniques adoption for high-tech industries

“…We construct a generatic NPD system from the process view of Six Sigma SIPOC (Supplier, Input, Process, Output and Customer) model and similar system (Brown and Gobeli 1992;Schumann et al 1995;Brown and Svenson 1998;Lewis 2001;Bhuiyan et al 2004). The evaluation aspects therefore, were also considered according to the NPD system shown in Fig.…”

The relationships between the patent performance and corporation performance

“…Through patent citation analysis, fundamental or important patents could be identified in the sense that the more frequent the patent citations is, the higher influence the patent is of, or the more impact or important it possesses (Breitzman, Thomas, & Cheney, 2002;Deng et al, 1999;Narin, 1994;Trajtenberg, 1990). Trajtenberg (1990) argues that the higher frequency of corporation patent citations is, the more probability that the patents may serve as the fundamental of future patented technology development, and the more influence on technological development it may resume which meantime also may implicate the higher value of the patent (Brown & Svenson, 1998;Jaffe, Trajtenberg, & Henderson, 1993;Narin, Hamilton, & Olivastro, 1997;Stolpe, 2002;Stuart & Podolny, 1996). Moreover, patent citations could also be used as the measure of corporation R&D output, innovation worth as well as corporation invention performance (Hagedoorn & Cloodt, 2003;Hall, Jaffe, & Trajtenberg, 2005;Lanjouw & Schankerman, 2004;Trajtenberg, 1990).…”

Measuring the change in R&D efficiency of the Japanese pharmaceutical industry

“…In considering the input and output of R&D, we cannot immediately specify what to be as the output, compared with R&D investment as the input. Geisler (1995) and Brown and Svenson (1998) list published articles, patents, new products, etc. as the output.…”