analyzing the process, products, and impact of research. It grows from and engages the work of a diverse and vibrant community …. This paper situates the UMETRICS effort in the context of research evaluation and ongoing data infrastructure efforts in …, and teams offers dramatic possibilities for data linkage, the evaluation of research investments, and the development of …

basic research to improve their technological potential. These research investments tighten firm selection and raise the … research investments. The over-investment problem turns to an under-investment problem if there are sufficiently strong cross …-country spillovers of basic research investments. -- public research investments ; public R&D ; international trade ; heterogeneous firms …

2007-2012 using a survey of employers, such as universities, institutions of applied higher education and research … institutes. The doctoral workforce in all countries around the world constitutes a rather small segment of the labour market … view, assumes significant growth in research funding, which the respondents mostly did not believe would occur, despite it …

levels and rather for management jobs than for jobs in research and development. This is true for the whole chemical sector …

analyze the perceptions and attitudes of postdocs regarding their research incentives, their working conditions, and their … training to academic or non-academic jobs. Only about half of the postdocs sees strong incentives for academic research, but … better career prospects and higher research incentives compared to others. Academic career prospects and motivation are …

Much of human knowledge is produced in the world's university departments. There is little scientific evidence, however …'s future research output. After adjustment for a range of personal and institutional characteristics, departmental research …

concern is that a "new class of research person will emerge" that uses data, which were gathered by other researchers, for … their own original research questions. The authors referred to this class of researcher as "research parasites". Longo and … of data sharing by research communities by introducing citations of data sets, bestowing awards for good datasets, and …