Resource allocation model for planning R&D on solar cells

R&D planning is important for promoting R&D effectively and efficiently. Th e authors formulate planning of R&D on solar cells as an optimal resource a llocation problem by using mathematical programming. The optimal resource a llocation model based on this formulation includes technological progress s ubmodels of solar cells and production and market submodels of solar cells. This model is expected not only to make clear the validity of R&D strategy on solar cells in the past, but also to give us the optimal plan of R&D on solar cells in the future. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reser ved.