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competitive position against a ring of peer communities, assess the POLBAN’s existing and emerging research strengths, evaluate research group within POLBAN, and identify the best research facility which practices on a national basis. According to the results come a series of findings and recommendations which will be integrated into the POLBAN strategic research planning. With the purpose of increasing POLBAN academic research competitiveness A number of strategies has been defined by the team, for examples: 1. Develop a research strategic planning based on the self evalution; 2. Apply research quality standard, includes; quality standards for the RD organization 3. Strengthen research groups, in particular a research group of the competitive research subject; 4. Define POLBAN strategic competitive research based on the themes which meet to the National research agenda, and industry requirements; 5. Set up technology transfer and community services; 6. Set up business and innovation centre; 7. Increase IPR ; 8. Increase external research grants. The research strategic planning is an essential first step in the development of a results-based accountability system [3]. Therefore by doing this, the quality of the research activities might be improved. The strategic research planning is identified as the process of addressing the following questions: • Who are we? • Where are we? • Where do we want to be? • What do we have to work with? • How do we get there? • How will we know how we are doing? To guarantee the research quality, a Research Quality Assurance Group will be set up. The group performs the task of assuring that products or outputs of conducted research meet specified requirements. Some decisive factors to evaluate a research topic and or a research output are specified as followed : • State of the art technology • Availability of the technology roadmap • Possibility to get the IPR • Strategic values of the research • Business opportunity of the products • Acquisition of the core technology • Product innovation. Additionally, a specific quality procedures to guide the lecturers has been designed according to international quality standard. In this case, the ISO 9001 is applied in POLBAN since 2008. This ISO quality procedures provide an operational framework not only for RD organization in POLBAN, but also for the whole POLBAN management system. The RD organization success is measured according to specific quality standard. There are a number of ways of looking RD organization effectiveness and productivity [4]. Output of RD organization can be measured by three groups, namely process measures, result measures, and strategic indicators. POLBAN translates parameters in each group become steps of quality standards which relate to activities, organization objectives, and long term strategic aspect of RD organization. Some examples of quality standard are [4]: • Number of responses sent to enquiries from outside institution • Number of technical reports published • Number of patents generated • External research grant obtained • Number of innovation developed and adapted for commercialization • Stability of research funding • The degree of customer satisfactionwith research output. Regarding to those quality standard, there are requirements to expand the structure of research organization in POLBAN. A number of new sub- division should be added to the existing structure of UPPM, as shown in Figure 3. Figure 3. Proposed RD organization Looking forward to the change in technology, the proposed RD organization is provided with Technology DevelopmentImplementation sub- division, Innovation and Product Development sub- division, Business Incubation Commercialization etc. With applying the new RD organization, it is 203