A systems-based R&D management model for the road and transport engineering sector applied to a community access roads and transport research programme

Figures & data

Figure 1: The Department Stage Model.

Figure 2: The Market Pull Model.

Figure 3: The Coupling Model.

Figure 4: The Activity Stage Model.

Figure 5: Profile of survey respondents (Rust 2015).

Figure 6: A dynamic system as depicted by Beer (1959).

Figure 7: Conceptual systems-based, non-linear model for R&D management.

Figure 8: The environment around the R&D management model.

Figure 9: Full set of research performance measures superimposed on the systems model (bulleted indicators were existing; numbered indicators are new).

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