Managing Research Projects in the Context of the Knowledge Economy: Success Factors and Challenges

Factors	Sub-factors
Leadership and the team	Project manager
	Project team member
	Collaboration within the team
Organizational	Top management support
	Project size and complexity
	Favorable work environment and flexibility
Resources	Funding, Financial support
Resources	Technology Facilities
External environment	Relationship with clients
	Technological environment
	Political and social factors
Project management activities	Project time/cost/quality management
	Project risk/control/procurement management
	Project communication
	Project HR management

Organisational and institutional factors	Human and cultural factors
Decentralized organization	Leadership with research expertise and skills
Assertive, participative governance	Sufficient size, age, and diversity of the research group
Accessible resources	Positive group climate
Appropriate rewards	Strong research emphasis
Clear goals serving a coordinating function	Frequent communication
Focus on recruitment and selection	Distinctive research culture

1. Assessment of project implementation conditions and problems faced(Availability of resources, delays, human resource issues)

2. Success factors for research projects(The management support, the project’s leader role)

3. Perspectives and recommendations(Recommendations for decision-makers, the team)

Categories	Sub-categories	Occurrence of codes
Institutional support	Administrative support and guidance	Highly cited factors
Institutional support	Favourable environment and flexibility
Leadership and collaboration	Role of the team leader
	Motivation and perseverance of the researcher/team	Moderately cited factors
	Effective horizontal and vertical communication	Less cited factors
Resource and project management	Financial support, appropriate equipment
	Effective project management
	Project market orientation and impact

Demographic characteristics		Number
Gender	Male	16
Gender	Female	11
Experience	More than 5 years	4
Experience	Less than 5 years	23
Field of study	Social Sciences and Humanities	5
	Economics, Business and Management	7
	Science and Technology	6
	Engineering	5
	Medical and Health Sciences	4
Position	Research centre director	1
	Division Director	4
	Senior researcher	6
	Postgraduate director	2
	Laboratory Director	6
	Lecturer	8

Categories	Sub-categories	Occurrence of codes
Administrative and bureaucratic problems	Rigid bureaucracy and operational standstill	Highly cited factors
	Slow administrative process
	Lack of monitoring and ambiguity in role definition
Human and relational problems	Demotivation of team members	Moderately cited factors
	Lack of involvement and disengagement
	Weak links with the socio-economic world
Problems of resources	Insufficient resources and technical support	Less cited factors
Problems of resources	Optimisation of use and maintenance	Less cited factors

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