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