Return on Scientific Investment - RoSI: a PMO dynamical index proposal for scientific projects performance evaluation and management.
OBJECTIVE
To propose a measure (index) of expected risks to evaluate and follow up the performance analysis of research projects involving financial and adequate structure parameters for its development.


METHODS
A ranking of acceptable results regarding research projects with complex variables was used as an index to gauge a project performance. In order to implement this method the ulcer index as the basic model to accommodate the following variables was applied: costs, high impact publication, fund raising, and patent registry. The proposed structured analysis, named here as RoSI (Return on Scientific Investment) comprises a pipeline of analysis to characterize the risk based on a modeling tool that comprises multiple variables interacting in semi-quantitatively environments.


RESULTS
This method was tested with data from three different projects in our Institution (projects A, B and C). Different curves reflected the ulcer indexes identifying the project that may have a minor risk (project C) related to development and expected results according to initial or full investment.


CONCLUSIONS
The results showed that this model contributes significantly to the analysis of risk and planning as well as to the definition of necessary investments that consider contingency actions with benefits to the different stakeholders: the investor or donor, the project manager and the researchers.
Instituto do Cérebro, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Cristofer André
CA
Caous
Birajara
B
Machado
Cora
C
Hors
Andrea Kaufmann
AK
Zeh
Cleber Gustavo
CG
Dias
Edson
E
Amaro Junior
D020811:Biomedical Technology / Q000191:economics*; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D007449:Investments; D012109:Research Support as Topic / Q000191:economics*; D018570:Risk Assessment