Planning innovation orientation in public research and development organizations: Using a combined Delphi and Analytic Hierarchy Process approach

Meesapawong, Pawadee, Rezgui, Yacine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5711-8400 and Li, Haijiang ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6326-8133 2014. Planning innovation orientation in public research and development organizations: Using a combined Delphi and Analytic Hierarchy Process approach. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 87 , pp. 245-256. 10.1016/j.techfore.2013.12.023

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Abstract

Planning innovation orientation in public research and development (R&D) organizations presents a number of challenges exacerbated by continuous changes in citizens' social aspirations. These challenges are further amplified by the unstable and complex socio-cultural and socio-organizational characteristics of any developing economy. The paper explores and devises an adapted orientation for future innovation using a combined Delphi and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach, applied to a developing country, i.e. Thailand. A set of generic influencing factors for innovation management in public R&D, emerged from a non-country specific review, are refined by a three-round Delphi consultation involving experts from various Thai national research centers. These factors were further utilized to establish an AHP-based model applied to a Thai public R&D organization to investigate impacts of three hypothesized innovation orientations: “knowledge”, “societal” and “commercial”. The AHP-based model reveals that the “commercial orientation” has the highest impact score on innovation factors. However, a sensitivity analysis is conducted as a result of which a suggestion is made to increase the priority of collaboration-related factors to improve the impact of the “societal orientation”. The findings from the combined Delphi and AHP approach have a generic dimension that can be adapted and tested in other contexts.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Engineering
Subjects:	T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	AHP; Delphi; Innovation management; Public R&D
Additional Information:	Published online before print 25 Jan 2014.
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0040-1625
Last Modified:	25 Oct 2022 09:02
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/56943

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