Measuring the Efficiency of Inventive Activities Along Inventive Projects in R&D

Measuring the efficiency of inventive design is the first research step to determine the key indicators of inventive efficiency. Detecting measurement objects, parameters, and the impacts factors that involve with inventive design processes provides us toward founding an effective measurement. The article looks for the appropriate zone across organizational processes for measuring inventive efficiency and mapping criteria. It aims to clear the principal criteria of measuring inventive efficiency, and demonstrates the necessity of a pertinent selection for entry factors to define indicators. This research is fed by an inquiry of about 100 French companies with their R&Ds.