Measuring the output of men and women in science and technology has previously been mostly restricted to case studies or small-scale surveys. Based on an analysis of patent and publication databases, this paper applies a methodology to systematically assign the gender to the names of inventors...

Motivated by concerns about the organizational and institutional conditions that foster research creativity in science, we focus on how creative research can be defined, operationalized, and empirically identified. A functional typology of research creativity is proposed encompassing...

(1) Der Ruf nach Rechenschaft über Leistungen, Qualität und Nutzen staatlich geförderter Wissenschaft und Forschung wird lauter. Wachsende Autonomiespielräume der Hochschulen durch Einführung von Globalhaushalten gehen Hand in Hand mit neuen, leistungsorientierten Modi der Verteilung von...

Our study of the regional dimension of China's innovation system has in essence yielded five main findings. Firstly, contrary to what general wisdom may suggest at first sight, the regional concen-tration of R&D activities in China could not be found to be particularly stark. While they are...