A basic model for evaluating R&D performance: theory and application in Italy
本文针对公共研发实验室，提出一个基于k指数的数学模型（relev方法），将财务、科学和技术维度综合为单一绩效指标，帮助管理者与政策制定者进行横向或纵向比较，并用于战略规划与改进。
Nowadays the public R&D laboratories have a fundamental role in countries’ development, supporting businesses as they face the technological challenges in the turbulent world scenarios. Measuring the performance of R&D organisations is crucially important to decisions about the level and direction of public funding for research and development. This research considers the public laboratories like systems and develops a mathematical model based on the measurement of R&D activities with k‐indices. The score obtained from the research laboratories evaluation (relev) methodology synthesises in single value financial, scientific and technological aspects. It is an indicator, for R&D manager and policy maker, of performance in relation to other research organisations or in a time series. The method is an instrument of strategic planning and can be used for the improvement of individual activities and the overall performance of public R&D bodies.