[Case Study Nexans] – Is it worth continuing or stopping an R&D investment?

But all laboratories in the world face a permanent dilemma: in which projects to invest? Which projects should be stopped? On what criteria should we decide? An applied research organisation, in particular an industrial laboratory, needs the most objective information possible to compare projects and decide on its investment portfolio.

This case study concerns a promising technology that had benefited from several years of investment. But it became necessary to make a decision: to continue the investment, to accelerate it, or to stop it?