The high rate of technology changes, lack of equipment, instruments and specificity laboratories, and the low level of skills are the most important problems faced by Iranian R&D managers. R&D outsourcing is one of a new ways of management approaches that has gained particular place in facing ...
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The high rate of technology changes, lack of equipment, instruments and specificity laboratories, and the low level of skills are the most important problems faced by Iranian R&D managers. R&D outsourcing is one of a new ways of management approaches that has gained particular place in facing these restrictions and defects. Beside all advantages mentioned about outsourcing, it has risks and hazards for organizations too. In other words, the implementation of risk management in R&D outsourcing is an important issue that should not be passovered. Several models have been proposed for risk management that PMBOK is typical one.
In this research, in order to identify and quantitative analysis of R&D outsourcing risks, PMBOK was used, and the main data gathering source was the expert people. By analyzing data of the first questionnaire, the risks of R&D outsourcing were identified, and the risk breakdown structure was proposed based on appropriate category. In the next stage, by analyzing the second questionnaire, tacit knowledge of people and fuzzy systems were used in quantitative analysis of R&D projects’ outsourcing risks.
