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How to Prepare an R&D Project

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How to Prepare an R&D Project

Below, we have listed several topics and related documents that we believe will support and guide you throughout your R&D project preparation processes.

Reference Guides

On March 10, 2005, the Supreme Council for Science and Technology decided, during its meeting on the collection of R&D statistics in all public institutions and organizations and on defining the scope of R&D and R&D support, to use the Frascati, Oslo, and Canberra Manuals as reference guides. TÜBİTAK was assigned to carry out the dissemination of these manuals.

Within this framework, we present for your reference the OECD manuals addressing R&D (Frascati Manual), Innovation (Oslo Manual), and Human Resources (Canberra Manual) at the following links:

What Does “R&D Character” Mean?

According to the Frascati Manual (OECD, 2015), research and development (R&D) consists of creative work carried out on a systematic basis to increase the stock of knowledge comprising human, cultural and societal knowledge and to use this knowledge to devise new applications.

Projects qualifying as R&D can be distinguished based on the following criteria:

  • Novel: Aimed at generating new findings.
  • Creative: Based on original concepts and hypotheses.
  • Uncertain: The final outcomes are not predetermined.
  • Systematic: Planned and budgeted in an organized manner.
  • Transferable and/or reproducible: Results can be transferred or reproduced.

Examples of Work That Do Not Qualify as R&D

Understanding these criteria is critically important, as one of the most common reasons for rejection of TÜBİTAK ARDEB project applications is that the projects do not possess R&D characteristics.

Below are examples of work that do not qualify as R&D:

  • Studies aimed solely at data collection and/or situation assessment.

  • Efforts focused on creating dictionaries, encyclopedias, inventories, catalogs or databases.

  • Work involving translation, transcription, edition criticism, bibliography compilation, reviews or archiving.

  • Excavation, restoration, restitution, conservation or surface survey studies.

  • Routine education, training programs or preparation of educational materials.

  • Routine software development activities.

  • Activities aimed at promotion, dissemination, awareness-raising or social responsibility.

  • Organizing symposiums, conferences, workshops, seminars or similar events.

  • Market research or routine index creation.

  • Repeating previously conducted research in different locations or with different subject groups.

  • Conducting studies similar to previous research without qualitative changes in theory, methodology, topic, scope, research questions or hypotheses.

Research Proposal

A research proposal presents a draft and general overview of the planned study, forming the starting point of a research project. Below, we share a sample research format as well as a work translated by TÜBİTAK in which Frank Pajares noted for his studies on academic achievement at Emory University explains the key elements of scientific research.