Principal Investigators and R&D Failure

Morgan Boyce is an adjunct faculty member in the Economics Department at the Belk College of Business, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (USA). Dr. Boyce has worked in the financial services industry for 15 years and held positions related to economic research and modeling, risk management, data science, and analytics. In addition to his work in the finance industry, his research interests are in innovation economics and entrepreneurship with a focus on factors associated with the success or failure of small entrepreneurial firms.

• Introduction.- R&D Project Failure and Principal Investigators.- Part I : Contextual Setting.- Publicly Funded Collaborative R&D: The Case of the US Department of Energy.- Legislative History of The SBIR Program.- A Theoretical Model of R&D Project Success or Failure.- Department of Energy and SBIR Data.- Collaborative R&D Firm and Project Characteristics: Empirical Insights.- Principal Investigators Experience in Collaborative R&D: Empirical Findings.- Part II; Reflections And Future Perspectives.- PIs and R&D Project Failure: Reflections and Future Research Avenues.