IoBM has chalked out comprehensive policy for advancing research in the university. This policy covers a wide range of topics including alignment of research with national needs, university and departmental steering of research, internal and external funding opportunities, bridge financing and timely completion of projects, support for research publications, support for international conferences, IoBM own journals and conferences, and incentives and awards for faculty and students. The policy also covers the appointment of adjunct faculty, Head of Department of Research, research associates, offering of consultancy services, and discusses faculty research performance evaluation and overall compliance of ethics in research.

This IoBM Research Policy is revised time to time to keep it abreast with the changing requirements and a number of changes have taken place including amending the criteria of Best Researcher Award, increasing support for paper publication charges and awards, amending the criteria for international conferences travel grants, an elaborative IoBM own conferences policy. These changes reflect the requirements of the time as well as are suitably aligned to national policies issued by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan and the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST).

To ensure academic freedom, IOBM Research Policy provisions researchers to choose areas of research pertinent to their expertise, speak publicly about their research on national and international platforms.

The following brief list links to the latest comprehensive policy as well as consequent updates indicated above:  

• Promoting Research at IoBM