About this issue

This is the first venture in combined editorship of two journals, the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management from the USA and R & D Management from the UK. Since the birth of the younger of the two journals, R & D Management, in 1970, there has been a collaboration and exchange of material and information between the editors. The editors have now taken the opportunity to combine in a joint issue devoted to a topic central to the interests of the two sets of readers, that of project selection. The articles have been chosen to cover a number of aspects of research project selection. It is not possible within the space available to survey the subject completely. It is hoped that the articles are not only of interest in themselves but are concerned with enough aspects of the subject to show the range of current interest. These notes will endeavor to pick up some points of interest from the articles to show where we think current interest is centered.