The Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation (DNATF), government agency, is investing in public-private partnership to promote the commercialization of Danish research in industrialized countries. DNATF developed a process for evaluating proposals, which makes the project awards, and then actively manage these projects to try to improve the likelihood of success. DNATF has a small staff of project managers, who act as the single point of contact (SPOC) for the projects. SPOC faced with a wide range of projects rich scientific and technical complexity of the issues, far beyond the capacity of one person to support special knowledge of the issue. The case raises some questions: How does the organization manage and evaluate scientific and technological progress in a situation where it is difficult to have special knowledge of the matter? As managers know if they are hard enough, and if they take too aggressive stance? "Hide
by Willy Shih, Margaret Pearson Source: Harvard Business School 18 pages. Publication date: April 17, 2012. Prod. #: 612091-PDF-ENG
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