Title: Performance measurement of national R&D organisations using analytic hierarchy process: a case of India

Authors: Jyoti Tikoria, D.K. Banwet, S.G. Deshmukh

Addresses: Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016, India. ' Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016, India. ' Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, Morena Link Road, Gwalior – 474010, India

Abstract: Evaluating and comparing the performance of different R&D organisations in a homogeneous or heterogeneous group in the fairest way is a very complex and yet challenging task. This paper provides a framework and a system to the national policy makers and the performance monitoring committee for designing a standard multiple performance measurement criteria for evaluating and comparing the performance of national R&D organisations. In this paper, analytic hierarchy process (AHP) technique has been applied to develop the framework of multiple performance measurement criteria, deriving their respective weights and system for comparing the performance of a group of Indian national R&D organisations involved in applied as well as basic research in chemical and botanical sciences. The framework and the system developed have been applied by taking an illustration to evaluate and compare the performance of six national R&D organisations in terms of their benefit-cost ratio.

Keywords: R&D management; analytical hierarchy process; AHP; performance measurement; performance measurement criteria; national R&D organisations; India; research and development; cost-benefit ratio.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2009.021847

International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development, 2009 Vol.1 No.3, pp.276 - 300

Published online: 05 Dec 2008 *

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