Assessment of technology costs. Business and financial issues in the world of research and development

The book discloses the relationship between research and development, one hand, and the cost for shareholders on the other. F. Peter Boer on the basis of his own experience in creating technologies and their assessment offers methods for determining the cost of scientific and technical projects, as well as companies developing them, and answers questions about how proposals should be analyzed on the creation of new technologies. The author contributes to the formation of a common language for scientists and business people and a set of analytical tools that businessmen, people of science and engineers could use when planning research projects. For scientists and engineers, managers of companies and specialists in the field of finance, investors and investment analysts