Termination Decisions Of R&D Project In Enterprises

Today enterprises face a global competition market demand changes fast, life cycle of product and technology decreases. Under this circumstance, enterprises must have its own advantange to develop itself. R&D is the basis to acquire competition advantage. Meanwhile enterprises recognize that R&D activity has a great role in increasing competitiveness, when it faces sharp competition.The most important character of R&D project is uncertainty and risk. Under this circumstance, how to terminate a project in a correct time is a problem . Because a fail project produce nothing, and this cause great losses to the enterprises. Based on demonstration method, this thesis discusses termination decisions of R&D project from qualitative and quantitative point of view.Firstly, this thesis introduces definition, essence , features and other relative concept of R&D project. Starting with the phase of R&D project, we see the risk traits, risk source, risk distribution as the basis of R&D project termination decisions. To terminate a R&D project is a secondary consideration; we hope R&D project could be successful to benefit the enterprises. We discuss the difference between R&D project and normal project. In this way, we hope R&D manager could make effective management to R&D project to increase the success chance of R&D project.And then according to the questionnaire survey to the R&D managers, we get qualitative model of R&D termination though Statistics analysis. Based on qualitative model of R&D termination, we introduce quantitative model of R&D project termination. In this way , we get a comprehensive R&D project termination model.To terminate a R&D project is a secondary consideration; we hope R&D project could be successful to benefit the enterprises. We discuss the difference between R&D project and normal project. In this way, we hope R&D manager could make effective management to R&D project to increase the success chance of R&D project.The last part of the thesis discusses how to terminate a R&D project when terminating is certainty.