The Committee oversees working groups which examine current research on a particular topic, to identify best practices for effective management of R&D.
IRI’s Board of Directors formed an ROR Subcommittee in 1968, following an unsuccessful effort to convince the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish research-on-research centers at U.S. universities.
Its first action was to appoint five project subcommittees to address selected topics identified by a 1969 survey that were considered important to the IRI membership.
Jason Salsbury, the first chair of the ROR Committee, explained “More than any other area, R&D is managed by policies and practices stemming from folklore rather than facts.
The Committee is composed of six or seven people from IRI member companies who meet with prospective co-chairs of the various working groups to draw up timelines, methodologies, and deliverables.