Identifying and Investigating Key Factors Affecting the Capabilities of Future R&D Projects Management in High-Tech Aerospace Industries

The ever-increasing global competition leads companies and industries to find new solutions for survival and market preservation. To this end, companies are trying to invest in innovative activities such as R&D projects and streamline their business and competition. Regarding the characteristics of future R&D projects, it is important to have access to methods that provide the success of these projects. R&D projects have been considered very little in terms of project management in technology-oriented companies. In order to implement the results of new research and to help resolve the problems in this field, it is necessary to identify and prioritize the factors affecting future R&D projects. The purpose of this research is applied and is a descriptive-survey method. Factors influencing future R&D projects in advanced technology industries have been extracted from the review of the literature and opinion of the aerospace industry experts and the approved questionnaires have been distributed in the expert community and the results have been verified using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equations with Smart-PLS software. In this study, eight main dimensions influencing future R&D projects in the aerospace advanced technology industry with 56 factors were identified and confirmed, which are important for all of them. All identified key factors have a significant impact on future R&D projects management capability in advanced aerospace industries.