Title : 
Technical and management note
         
        
            Author : 
Manners, G.E. ; Steger, J.A.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
School of Management, Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy, NY, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In order to define behaviorally the R&D manager´s job, extensive interviews and observations were conducted of R&D managers. The result is a categorical description of the R&D manager´s job with a start of behavioral definition in each category. A validation of the categorical model was performed.
         
        
            Keywords : 
research and development management; R&D Management role; behavioural specifications; categorical model; Companies; Educational institutions; Forecasting; Marketing and sales; Planning; Training;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Engineering Management, IEEE Transactions on
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/TEM.1976.6447175