Your research aims should address your research question and be accompanied by manageable objectives that will allow you to fulfil them.

Imagine that you have the following research question: ‘How do project teams in scientific ventures create new ideas?’

A research aim here might be to develop case studies of this process in a number of scientific ventures, while a research objective might be for you to exchange knowledge with project teams in those ventures so that you can develop a platform for writing your case studies.