Top management support, innovative project planning, and communication between stakeholders are three ambiguous success factors: they are essential, but not necessarily effective. The first research phase consisted of interviews with the project lead and the project director, and a questionnaire distributed to project members of a large corporate research centre. The second phase consisted of a survey targeting senior management in innovative enterprises. A large number of different analyses including SEM were used to reveal mutual influences.

Planning shows a positive influence on innovative project performance when the mediation of communication is taken into account. TMS wields a non-constant effect on the three success factors: it is a non-linear relationship that must reach a high level to be effective.

最高管理层的支持、创新的项目规划和利益相关者之间的沟通是三个模棱两可的成功因素：它们是必不可少的，但不一定有效。第一个研究阶段包括与项目负责人和项目主管的访谈，以及向大型企业研究中心的项目成员分发的问卷。第二阶段包括针对创新型企业高管的调查。包括SEM在内的大量不同分析被用来揭示相互影响。

当考虑到沟通的中介时，规划显示出对创新项目绩效的积极影响。TMS 对三个成功因素产生非恒定影响：它是一种非线性关系，必须达到高水平才能有效。