Present about basic concepts about formulating a research project with very high rate of success in terms of outputs. also cover management of research outcome for societal good

1. Project Formulation and
Outcome Management
Presentation at Online National Workshop on Research
Methodology: Concepts and Applications, MPUAT, Udaipur, 26th
June 2020
S.K. Soam
ICAR-National Academy of Agricultural Research
Management (NAARM)
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
@SK_Soam
sudhir.soam@icar.gov.in

2. Purpose and Approach of Research
• Why are we doing PhD?
– A- Enhance qualification
– B- Find out solution to a problem
– C- Just time pass [wait for ARS]
• How are we doing research?
– Whether research question is clear?
– Do we have a hypotheses to prove/reject?
– What is the Rationale?
– Do we have any outcome plan?

3. Hierarchy of Objectives in a
Research Project
• Project Goal [What you intend to
contribute for societal good?]
• Outcome [what are you giving to society?]
• Purpose/ objective [what you intend to
do?]
• Outputs [what research results, a project
team require to achieve their purposes]
• Activities
• Inputs

4. Critical Components of a Research
Project
• Problem Identification
• Objectively verifiable indicators
• Critical Assumptions and Risk
• Go through following software of mine, put
in the Google search and you get the
website: First sign up and then sign in with
user name and password
– Research Concept Writer [Write a concept]
– Project Logframe Writer [Write detailed
project and implement]
– AHP Analyser [Research priority setting]

5. Outcome Management Ecosystem
Research Part:
• Protect your Intellectual Property [Patent, Design, Copyright,
Plant Variety, Geographical Indication]
• Communication: Publication and online networks
Startup Ecosystem Part: [a-IDEA of NAARM]
• Incubation
• Acceleration
• Private Investor [Not guide- initial funding by friends]
• Angel Investor [HNI own money invest at idea level, Guide,
Board Member]
• Venture Capitalist (VC) [Professionally managed LLP]
• Private Equity (PE) [Take share in ownership in your company]
Govt Support:
• NAHEP- Digital Solution Projects
• BIRAC
• NIDHI

6. Research to Development: You
need money
Who support at what stage?
• Idea stage
• Seed stage
• Early stage
• Growth stage [egg laying- Hen stage]
• Expansion stage
For what they support? NASSOM 205 data
• B2C [eCommerce-38%; Aggregators- 35%]
• B2B [Aggregators-23, payment-16,
consumer services-12, Edu tech-11%]

7. A case of rural outcome based research: Greenway
Grameen Infra to Greenway Appliances
Small Research Funds from
Indo-US Science and
Technology Board as
Incubate of Center for
Incubation Innovation and
Entrepreneurship (CIIE at IIM
Ahemdabad)
Stakeholder Networks
• Rural
• Angel Investor
Output Management: Steel
Technology
Outcome Management
• Protecting IP
• Provisional
patent/Patent/PCT
Application
• Startup

8. Manage Your Stakeholders
Low-IMPORTANCE-High
A B
C D
Low- INFLUENCE- High

9. Share carefully: Creative commons
1.Attribution: Use, re-use, remix, build upon, even commercial
but give credit to Author
2. Attribution-No Derivatives: pass unchanged and in whole
including commercial but with credit to Author
3. Attribution-Non commercial-Share Alike: You need to put your
work under same conditions whatever build upon or remix
4. Attribution-Share Alike: Like 4 but can use commercial also
5. Attribution-Non commercial: Like 1 but non commercial
6. Attribution-Non commercial-No Derivatives: Most restrictive,
like 2 but no commercial.
GATS and Agricultural Higher Education in India by S.K. Soam and Kalpana Sastry
is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available
at www.naarm.ernet.in.

10. Thanks very much MPUAT
Dr NS Rathore, Hon’ble VC
Organizing Secretary/ Conveners
and All Participants of the Workshop
sudhir.soam@icar.gov.in