As governments globally compete for their resident companies to invest into research and development by offering varying incentives, tax breaks and grants, an increased focus on an organisation’s ability to attract these incentives, whilst also maintaining compliance in the instance of an audit, was a demonstrated gap in many organisation’s capability.

The Global Research Institute was formed to address this issue. The format and method for the training programs has been based on the Frascati Methodology. The historical origins of this method dates back to June 1963, when OECD experts met with the NESTI group (National Experts on Science and Technology Indicators) at the Villa Falconieri in Frascati, Italy. Here, they drafted the first version of Frascati Manual, which is officially known as The Proposed Standard Practice for Surveys of Research and Experimental Development.

The definitions provided in the Frascati Manual have been adopted by many governments and serve as a common language for discussions of science and technology policy and economic development policy. Originally an OECD standard, it has become an acknowledged standard in R&D studies all over the world and is widely used by various organisations associated with the United Nations and European Union.

Over the past 40 years, the NESTI group has developed a series of documents, known as the “Frascati Family”, that includes manuals on R&D (Frascati Manual), innovation (Oslo Manual), human resources (Canberra Manual), technology, balance of payments, and patents as indicators of science and technology.

The Global Research Institute’s training programs and templates align with this OECD standard and provide the world’s first and most innovative training program designed for companies of all sizes to manage their R&D efforts with best practice methodologies.