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Nowadays, the performance evaluation of R&D activities to yield fundamental information for the effectiveness of decision-making on R&D investment has become important since the government budget is limited.
This article suggests a hybrid type of evaluation model (i.e. qualitatively weighted quantified model) that makes up assessment of both quantitative and qualitative R&D performances in the Korean defense industry. The model tries to combine a DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) methodology that uses a well-known quantitative measure for technical and cost efficiency of a number of DMUs (Decision Making Units) and an AHP (Analysis Hierarchical Process) method that helps discopose the qualitative evaluation problem into a hierarchical or more easily comprehensible sub-problems.
Weight is measured for each qualitatively evaluating hierarchy by a survey targeting defense industry experts, researchers, military specialists, and planners. Technical and cost efficiency of a DMU are relatively calculated by comparing differences in efficiency across all DMUs while the importance of each quantitative measure is weighted. We verified the suggested model by practically evaluating 7 major companies in the Korean defense industry.