management methods on R&D projects were required, as implied by previous studies.
The interviews consisted of ten open-ended questions. Nine interviews were conducted with R&D project managers, two of which originated from the organisation in which the case study projects were sourced. The interviewees were from three different R&D organisations, each from a different industry. This provided a wider cross-section of R&D projects undertaken in South Australia, thus constituting a fair representation of current risk management practices applied to R&D projects in general.