Great question Md. Rabiul Islam

It is important to recognize that the success of research projects cannot be linked only to the end products. A more process-oriented view with some attention to the intangible benefits needs to be taken on board. For example, a project that would not reach the final stage might still gain some scores on such intangible criteria as ‘increased understanding of the system and potential system improvements in the future’.

Md. Rabiul Islam Here are some KPI's for you research project

1. Research Impact

Dissemination

Citations

Sustainability of Excellent Research

Beneficiaries

2. Research Infrastructure

Research Active Staff

Performance of Research Centres / Clusters

Affiliations / International Collaborative Partnerships

Investment (Capital and Research Funds)

3. Research Income

Collaborative Research Awards

Research Grants and Contract Income

% of successful offers

Sources of funding

4. Research Quality

Comparative Grade Point Average (1 – 4)

5. Research Degree Provision

Research Student

Studentships

Completions

Supervisors

Here are few more KPIS's for Research and development.

• Time To Prepare Patent Claims
• Cost Savings Due To R&D
• Cost Per R&D
• Laboratory Surface
• Staff With Ph.D. Degrees
• New Products Per Researcher & Cost Per Researcher
• First To Market Products
• Products / Services Codeveloped In Partnership With Customers
• Product Development Projects Completed
• Patents Per Million Dollars Of R&D Investment

Good luck!

Regards,

Nayan Kadam

Dear Md. Rabiul Islam,

The previous answer was so detailed and it can give you some idea. I would like to highlight the basic aims of the research. If you have an applied research project, it would be welcomed to commercialize, that's why your KPI's should be focused on the resources and costs, and revenues as well. But if you have a basic research, where the outcomes are so doubtful - you should measure the research costs (resources), the capacity, the time, and some parts of the outcomes - maybe some articles and white papers could be issued. The KPI is coming from the strategy and it is about that factor we would like to control.

Thanks a lot for your valuable suggestions @Nayan Kadam and Attila Kurucz. I am preparing a Post Doc research proposal on Sustainable Entrepreneurship for a scholarship purposes. If you have any other suggestions and/or documents please help.

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Excellent answer..

How about KPI for research department or research center ?