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...

Technological innovation is widely seen as a means for raising productivity levels in state and local government. Growing evidence indicates that (1) senior level bureaucrats have primary responsibility for decisions concerning the adoption of innovations, and (2) innovations adopted by state...

The Cooperative Extension Service, although widely cited as an exemplary technology transfer system for its documented contributions to increases in agricultural productivity, is confronting a number of challenges. Recent presidential budgets propose a narrowing of federal responsibilities for...