Research Catalog

Title

Technology commercialization : DEA and related analytical methods for evaluating the use and implementation of technical innovation / edited by Sten A. Thore.

Publication

Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2002], ©2002.

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Additional Authors

Thore, Sten A. O.

Description

xiv, 409 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subject

• Technological innovations > Evaluation
• Technological innovations > Management
• Data envelopment analysis

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibligraphical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword: Technology Choices and The New Discipline of Technology Commercialization / Robert Ronstadt -- Ch. 1. Tutorial. The Many Dimensions of an R&D Project: Multi-Criteria Analysis / C. Bana e Costa and S. Thore -- Ch. 2. Using Frontier Analysis to Rate the R&D Projects of a Commercial Corporation. Research Paper: Prioritizing a Portfolio of R&D Activities, Employing Data Envelopment Analysis / S. Thore and G. Rich -- Ch. 3. The Life Cycles of Sales and Profits: Dealing with the Uncertainties of the Commercialization Process. Research Paper: Prioritizing R&D Projects in the Face of Technological and Market Uncertainty: Combining Scenario Analysis and DEA / S. Thore and L. Lapao -- Ch. 4. Investment Policies by Venture Capital Firms and Government Development Foundations. Research Paper: Applying Data Envelopment Analysis to Evaluate the Efficiency of R&D Projects - A Case Study of R&D in Energy Technology / B. Yuan and J.-N. Huang -- Ch. 5. Rating Academic Research.
• Research Paper: Controlling the Efficiency of University Research in the Netherlands / T. Garcia Valderrama and T. L. C. M. Groot -- Ch. 6. Rating R&D Stock. Research Paper: Pricing IPOs, Using Two-Stage DEA to Track their Financial Fundamentals / C. Abad and S. Thore -- Ch. 7. Monitoring the Dynamic Performance of a Portfolio of R&D Projects over Time. Research Paper: Evaluating a Portfolio of Proposed Projects, Ranking them Relative to a List of Existing Projects / S. Thore and F. Pimentel -- Ch. 8. R&D Budgeting: Assessing the Efficiency of R&D Projects in the Presence of Resource Constraints. Research Paper: On the Ranking of R&D Projects in a Hierarchical Organizational Structure subject to Global Resource Constraints / B. Golany and S. Thore -- Ch. 9. Tutorial. The Environmental Impact of New Products / S. Thore and P. Ferrao -- Ch. 10. A New Mathematical Programming Format for Activity Analysis and the Life Cycle of Products.
• First Research Paper: Activity Analysis with Environmental Variables and Recycling: An Example from the Portuguese Bottled Water Industry / S. Thore and F. M. Freire. Second Research Paper: Life Cycle Activity Analysis: A Case Study of Plastic Panels / F. Freire, E. Williams and A. Azapagic / [et al.] -- Ch. 11. Ranking Commercial Products with Harmful Environmental Effects. Research Paper: Using DEA to Rank the Performance of Producers in the Presence of Environmental Goals / S. Thore and M. Freire -- App. The Mathematics of Data Envelopment Analysis.

ISBN

1402070179 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2002022123

OCLC

• ocm49305562
• SCSB-4277561

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries