Study of Framework of R&D Program Management

Abstract

The importance of program management for R&D has been widely pointed out up to now, and study has also been progressed in P2M, aiming for the improvement of the theory, by putting R&D in scheme model preceding product development and commercialization. On the other hand, it can be possible to regard R&D itself to be the main target of management, and to realize that R&D should be positioned in scheme model, system model, or service model in a higher level of 3S model, in some cases. In this paper, how R&D should be positioned in program management has been reorganized for further discussion, expecting to support the improvement of theoretical framework in the future.