1107 R&D Project Categorization by Project Characteristics

Abstract

There are varieties of R&D projects in their characteristics among the enterprises whose products and services are different. Hence sometimes there are difficulties to deal with the phenomena general. Recently we formed a working group for about one year to pursue effective project management deployment in R&D area, where the categorization need for R&D projects was found to generalize the R&D projects. In this paper, the categorization method developed and the effects are discussed.