- Author
- Hall, J. T. | Dixon, R. A.
- Title
- Productivity Measurement in R&D: Productivity Measurement Experiment (PROMEX) in Selected Research and Development Programs at the National Bureau of Standards. Final Report.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- NBS TN 890, December 1975, 52 p.
- Distribution
- Available from Government Printing Office Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
- impact | measurement
- Abstract
- This report describes an experiment in productivity measurement conducted at the National Bureau of Standards. The experiment concludes that no matter how sophisticated the analysis and synthesis processes become, statistical counts of output media (e.g., publications, citations, invited talks) will not serve as reliable measures of R&D productivity. The conduct of the experiment included a work sampling study, a communications study, an output analysis, a value analysis approach to developing criteria for selection and evaluation of programs, construction of a model of the R&D process.