Evaluating R&D Impacts: Methods and Practice by Albert N. Link (auth.), Barry Bozeman, Julia Melkers (eds.)

By Albert N. Link (auth.), Barry Bozeman, Julia Melkers (eds.)

A serious factor in study and improvement (R&D) administration is the constitution and use of evaluative efforts for R&D courses. The ebook introduces different tools that could be utilized in R&D assessment after which illustrates those equipment via describing genuine assessment in perform utilizing these methods.
The publication is split into sections. the 1st part offers an creation and info on a number of well known methodologies utilized in the review of analysis and improvement actions. the second one 1/2 the e-book specializes in review in perform and is constituted of a number of chapters supplying the views of people in numerous kinds of businesses. The publication concludes with an annotated bibliography of chosen R&D assessment literature, targeting post-1985 literature, on study evaluation.

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It reviews the origins of bibliometrics and surveys the technical variations of bibliometric analysis. The second section of this chapter provides a discussion and overview of the different utilities and techniques associated with the different forms of bibliometric analysis. It focuses on the methodological issues relevant to this form of analysis. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the approach? What is its potential as an R&D impact evaluation tool? Guidelines for using bibliometrics in ex-post R&D evaluation are provided.

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