title: Defining success for translational research organizations.
abstract: Translational research organizations (TROs) seek to enhance the clinical impact of scientific discoveries and play a multifaceted role characterized by multidisciplinary collaboration, outreach initiatives, and the provision of shared resources and facilities. Given this complexity, TROs require a flexible framework for performance assessment that tracks their progress, incentivizes fruitful activities, and aligns individuals throughout the organization. We suggest a framework that assesses TRO performance along seven main dimensions-funding, talent, creation, validation, dissemination, external uptake, and collaboration-and we encourage individual organizations to develop additional metrics as needed.
authors.affiliation: Harvard Business School, Boston, MA 02163, USA. rpozen@hbs.edu
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pozen
authors.forename: Heather
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kline
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D012109:Research Support as Topic