As this volume demonstrates, a wide variety of methodologies exist to evaluate particularly the objectives and outcomes of research and development programs. These include surveys, statistical and econometric estimations, patent analyses, bibliometrics, scientometrics, network analyses, case...

Evident in recent requests by policy-makers for evidence about the effectiveness and impacts of public-sector R&D programs and associated calls for a science of science policy is a call for new and improved approaches to evaluation. The trend is towards ex ante questions directed at providing...

Growth of interdisciplinary research and education is accompanied by uncertainty about how to evaluate interdisciplinary work. What constitute indicators of quality that distinguish the exemplary from the mundane? What research evaluation processes are most appropriate when disciplinary...

This paper starts with an analysis of how political and organizational factors shape the general and specific criteria used to determine the set of science indicators that will be used to assess a science agency's performance and then proceeds to develop an approach that can be used to assess...

Managing the academic research enterprise to achieve enhanced quality and national research competitiveness entails far more than the conventional components of strategic planning. A brief account of findings relating to interdisciplinarity, a more formal statement about cultural barriers to...

This paper reviews features in both theory and practice in the use of performance indicators in making budgetary decisions about US government S&T programs, especially the consequences of the Government Performance and Results Act. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

The question of how to assess interdisciplinary research is made more complex by the existence of multiple actors making multiple decisions in multiple organizational settings. These settings include government officials charged with allocating or evaluating public expenditures in political...