This initiative proposes a new tool to measure and diagnose technological and innovation capabilities on research groups, based on an existing tool actually being applied to companies. This new option includes important deep-in changes, adapting the language according to the idiosyncrasy of research personnel and institutions. Literature research showed a lack of methodologies that apply directly to research units. After re-design, the developed tool was applied to three research groups/units in a private Colombian University, with interesting findings about strategic thinking, productivity and the group's human and organizational integration.