Intense competition in the current business environment leads firms to focus on selecting the most appropriate R&D project portfolio in order to accomplish sustainable growth in the fierce market place. Achieving this goal is tied down by uncertainty which is inherent in all R&D projects. Therefore, investment decisions must be made within an optimization framework, based on the data which is u...

Many methodologies have been introduced to deal with project portfolio selection problem including some techniques that help to evaluate individual projects, or to select a portfolio among available projects. This paper, however, provides several XML-based schemes for building efficient and flexible project portfolio selection systems based on an integrated portfolio selection model proposed. I...

This paper empirically investigates the determinants of R&D diversification strategies in the drug industry. It enriches the existing literature by proposing to look at diversification factors, which reflect market and technological proximity of an R&D project towards other projects within a firm’s portfolio as well as R&D competition factors. Additionally, the characteristics of R&D in the mar...