A framework for technological research results assessment

Abstract

Nowadays, research has had a fundamental role for the economic development and growth of economies at a worldwide level. Research has contributed with new ideas, studies, implementations and innovations, which requires an effective validation to be launched for production or exploitation. Thereby, it is important for entrepreneurs to have new technical and business tools, such as frameworks to help them in the evaluation and validation of such new technologies development. In this article, a methodology to analyse the economic viability of the involvement of companies in research projects is presented. However, the focus of this work is about to propose a framework for its technological research results assessment for one of its phases. This phase intends to ensure an efficient validation approach, which supported by an effective change management of the research results appliance, would result in a favourable condition for their successful exploration. Authors proposed a framework that was tested in the evaluation of a research project pilot through an execution in the textile domain.

Keywords:

• business information systems
• innovation management
• technology transfer

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank, to the research project partners that somehow contributed for the presentation of this work, namely the enterprise PIACENZA, which facilities and personnel actively contributed and participated respectively for the pilot execution and evaluation.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes

1. http://www.piacenzacashmere.info/.

2. www.gs1.org/epcglobal.