The internationalization of science has prompted major science funding agencies to seek to further international cooperation in basic research through the use of outposts based outside of the agency's home country. While these offices are all international in scope, the strategies and...

This issue has an edited selection from over 50 papers presented to the Research Technology and Development Topical Interest Group of the American Evaluation Association during the AEA 2007 conference. The six papers in this collection fall into two subgroups. The first three take as their...

This paper provides an introduction to research portfolio analysis activities, including evaluation of research portfolios, in the context of federal research funding agencies in the United States. First, we discuss the portfolio analysis activities most commonly used by research funding...