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The academic research systems of China and the USA are characterised by different policies and practices with regards to university-business research cooperation (UBRC). To examine those differences, from the perspective of research-intensive universities, this study’s analytical framework focuses on university research outputs that involve collabo...
Patent statistics from various sources are often cited in science, technology, and innovation (STI) studies and STI policies, usually as a proxy for measuring output and activity related to technological innovation. But how reliable are those statistics? The reproducibility of numerical data originating from these information sources may be low, as...
We live in an information-rich world where very few people question the practical value of numbers. For R&D managers and Science and Technology (S&T) policymakers, access to large amounts of objective information coupled with 'insider knowledge' of the current state of S&T systems promotes better awareness of their organization' s strengths, weakne...
The concept ‘research excellence’ remains ill-defined in performance assessment and science funding frameworks. This article introduces a framework that distinguishes ‘global excellence’ and ‘local excellence’, which enable a better understanding of ‘research excellence’ in African science. Where global excellence is primarily determined by acknowl...
Africa is undergoing a remarkable period of transformation. Investment in the continent’s universities are among key measures identified to counter negative development scenarios. While there are encouraging indications of improvement in Africa’s scientific contribution, there is not always the political recognition that research universities are c...
Driven by European Union policy challenges, this cutting\-edge book focuses upon the Regional Innovation Impact (RII) of universities, to analyse the socioeconomic impact that universities in Europe have on their hometowns, metropolitan areas and regions.
By developing a conceptual model of RII, and by applying a mixed\-method narrative with numbe...
Chapter 1 ofTransformer l’excellence en recherche
La ciencia moderna está sometida a una gran presión. Una potente combinación de expectativas crecientes, recursos limitados, así como tensiones entre la competencia y la cooperación y la necesidad de financiación basada en pruebas, está creando un cambio importante en la forma en que se conduce y se percibe la ciencia. En medio de esta “tormenta pe...
La ciencia moderna está sometida a una gran presión. Una potente combinación de expectativas crecientes, recursos limitados, así como tensiones entre la competencia y la cooperación y la necesidad de financiación basada en pruebas, está creando un cambio importante en la forma en que se conduce y se percibe la ciencia. En medio de esta “tormenta pe...
La ciencia moderna está sometida a una gran presión. Una potente combinación de expectativas crecientes, recursos limitados, así como tensiones entre la competencia y la cooperación y la necesidad de financiación basada en pruebas, está creando un cambio importante en la forma en que se conduce y se percibe la ciencia. En medio de esta “tormenta pe...
This chapter introduces a large-scale “big data” approach to identify and study possible early effects of the New Silk Road (NSR) initiative on research cooperation patterns between China and other countries. The quantitative data are extracted from publication output in the international research literature, for the years 2010–2018, covered in the...
This book presents the outcomes of the research project on “The New Silk Road: Implications for higher education and research cooperation between China and Europe.” It addresses questions regarding how academic mobility and cooperation is taking shape along the New Silk Road and what difference it will make in the global higher education landscape....
Modern-day science is under great pressure. A potent mix of increasing expectations, limited resources, tensions between competition and cooperation, and the need for evidence-based funding is creating major change in how science is conducted and perceived. Amidst this ‘perfect storm’ is the allure of ‘research excellence’, a concept that drives de...
This empirical study analyzes university‐business co‐operation (UBC) from a distance‐based perspective. Focusing on the UK's 48 largest research universities, we collected data from author affiliate addresses in 2008–2017 university‐business research publications (UBRPs). The spatial proximity between university and its business partners listed in...
Modern-day science policies and evidence-driven research management practices seem obsessed with quantification, performance indicators and the notion of ‘excellence’. Recent years have produced a flurry of academic studies on problematic characteristics of the concept ‘research excellence’, often referring to science in high-income countries and k...
Despite the ascent of ‘value for money’ policies in higher education, consensus is often
lacking between universities and government stakeholders about what exactly the role of
universities should be with regard to academic research commercialization, entrepreneurship
and innovation (ARCEI). A larger degree of transparency and policy clarification...
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"Modern-day science is under great pressure. A potent mix of increasing expectations, limited resources, tensions between competition and cooperation, and the need for evidence-based funding is creating major change in how science is conducted and perceived. Amidst this perfect storm is the allure of research excellence, a concept that drives decis...
R&D spending, be it university or industrial spending, has a positive impact on the scale of scientific production. However, the impact of R&D spending on joint university-industry scientific production, which may vary significantly according to the phase of macroeconomic cycles, is likely to be more complex than the impact on either within-univers...
Many historians of science and technology acknowledge that discovery-oriented ‘basic’ scientific research is a major contributor to modern-day technological development. Some believe that the role of basic research is in decline, others argue the opposite. There is little empirical data to back up either view. This paper is meant to address this in...
Pasteur's Quadrant model, published by Stokes in 1997, presents a two-dimensional abstract conceptual framework that proved immensely helpful to study and discuss institutional and policy arrangements in science. However, during the last 10 years the PQ model was also applied in a series of large-scale, survey-based studies worldwide to classify in...
Our article discusses various features of research excellence (RE) in Africa, framed within the context of African science granting councils (SCGs) and pan-African RE initiatives. Our survey, collecting responses from 106 researchers and research coordinators across Africa, highlights the diversity of opinions and preferences with regards to Africa...
Excellent research may contribute to successful science-based technological innovation. We define ‘R&D excellence’ in terms of scientific research that has contributed to the development of influential technologies, where ‘excellence’ refers to the top segment of a statistical distribution based on internationally comparative performance scores. Ou...
Cite as van Dongen, P., Yegros, A., Tijssen, R. & Claassen, E., "The relationships between university IP regimes, scientists' motivations and their engagement with research commercialisation in ABSTRACT Many policy makers regard Technology Transfer Offices as a vehicle for Intellectual Property regimes and a main driver for research commercialisati...
‘Research excellence’ seems to have become a catchword in the world of science. Globally there is a widespread aspiration for researchers and organisations to be excellent. Deriving its original meaning from ‘to excel’, being superior, the term is at risk of becoming inflated. In countries where research funding is scarce, such as in low-income cou...
Este artigo analisa a colaboração em pesquisa entre a empresa estatal petrolífera brasileira, Petrobras, e universidades no período de 1980 a 2014. Apesar da importância da interação universidade-empresa na indústria de petróleo brasileira, há poucos estudos temporalmente abrangentes sobre o tema. Este trabalho ajuda a preencher uma lacuna na liter...
Inclusive innovation refers to the improvement of living conditions and creation of employment opportunities for the poor through the development or co-creation of new products, services, processes and business models aimed at resource poor communities. Based on an empirical study of 15 university-led inclusive innovation projects in the Western Ca...
In this study, university-industry collaborations in China and the USA are analyzed in terms of co-authored publications indexed in the Web of Science (WoS). Results show a wide gap between China and the USA: Chinese universities are much less active in collaborations with industry in terms of either publication productivity or collaboration intens...
In September 2015 Thomson Reuters published its Ranking of Innovative Universities (RIU). Covering 100 large research-intensive universities worldwide, Stanford University came in first, MIT was second and Harvard in third position. But how meaningful is this outcome? In this paper we will take a critical view from a methodological perspective. We...
Some say that world science has become more ‘applied’, or at least more ‘application-oriented’, in recent years. Replacing the ill-defined distinction between ‘basic research’ and ‘applied research’, we introduce ‘research application orientation’ domains as an alternative conceptual and analytical framework for examining research output growth pat...
This is an introduction of four case studies, conducted at different universities in Asia and Europe, on university-industry
research cooperation and related interactions.
Analysts of university–industry interaction sometimes measure it through numbers of university–industry co-publications (UICs),
because of their relative availability and international comparability. However, we do not know whether UICs correspond to
another measure of interaction: university funding from firms. We propose a conceptual model on fou...
We have developed and tested an evidence-based method for early-stage identification of scientific discoveries. Scholarly publications are analyzed to track and trace breakthrough processes as well as their impact on world science. The focus in this study is on the incremental discovery of the ubiquitin-mediated proteolytic system in the late 1970s...
This study investigates whether scientific publications can give plausible suggestions about whether R&D support infrastructures in the UK successfully foster scientific activity and cooperation. For this, research publications associated with UK SPs were identified from Scopus for the years 1975–2010 and analysed by region, infrastructure type and...
Transformations and applications of scientific knowledge into new technologies are usually complex interactive processes. Is it possible to detect, from bibliographic information alone, structural alterations and significant events within these processes that may indicate breakthrough discoveries? In this empirical study we focus on R&D processes l...
Certain scholarly publications or patent publications may signal breakthroughs in basic scientific research or radical new technological developments. Are there bibliographical indicators that enable an analysis of R&D dynamics to help identify these `local revolutions' in science and technology? The focus of this paper is on early stage identifica...
We present a novel approach to identifying emerging topics in science and technology. An existing co-citation cluster model is combined with a new method for clustering based on direct citation links. Both methods are run across multiple years of Scopus data, and emergent co-citation threads in a specific year are matched against the direct citatio...
Scientists collaborate increasingly on a global scale. Does this trend also hold for other bibliometric relations such as direct citations, cocitations and shared references? This study examines citation-based relations in publications published in the journal Scientometrics from 1981 to 2010. Different measures of Mean Geographical Distance (MGD)...
Extant indicators on research and higher education do not consider the complex relational structure in which universities
are embedded and that influences their performance on one side, and the impact of policies on the other. This article investigates
the overall pattern of universities’ relational arenas in a Regional environment by considering t...
Some scholarly publications or patent publications may signal breakthroughs in basic scientific research or radical new technological developments. Are there bibliographical indicators that enable an analysis of R&D dynamics to help identify these `local revolutions' in science and technology? In this case study we focus on developments that occurr...
The Framework Programmes (FPs) funded by the European Commission support transnational research collaborations in order to
make the European Research Area more competitive. Some have raised concerns that the FPs compromise the cohesion policies of the European Commission aimed
at reducing income disparities between European regions. We investigate...
The Leiden Ranking 2011/2012 is a ranking of universities based on bibliometric indicators of publication output, citation impact, and scientific collaboration. The ranking includes 500 major universities from 41 different countries. This paper provides an extensive discussion of the Leiden Ranking 2011/2012. The ranking is compared with other glob...
R&D collaboration between industry and universities has been become an academic research topic in its own right. Public private cooperation is high on many policy agenda's nowadays, especially with regard to science-based technological innovation. Nonetheless, there is still a surprising lack of quantitative data and large-scale systematic measurem...
This paper applies a new model and analytical tool to measure and study
contemporary globalization processes in collaborative science - a world in
which scientists, scholars, technicians and engineers interact within a 'grid'
of interconnected research sites and collaboration networks. The building
blocks of our metrics are the cities where scienti...
The Leiden Ranking 2011/2012 is a ranking of universities based on bibliometric indicators of publication output, citation impact, and scientific collaboration. The ranking includes 500 major universities from 41 different countries. This paper provides an extensive discussion of the Leiden Ranking 2011/2012. The ranking is compared with other glob...
This chapter describes the data collection instruments used in the development of U-Multirank. The first section is an overview of existing databases – mainly on bibliometrics and patents. The second describes the questionnaires and survey tools used for collecting data from the institutions – at the institutional and department levels – and from s...
This chapter describes the design and outcomes of the pilot test assessing the feasibility of implementing U-Multirank. The authors outline the construction of the global sample of institutions that participated in the pilot test and discuss the feasibility of the data collection procedures and use of the various indicators presented in Chap. 7. Fi...
In the increasingly competitive and globalising world of higher education, the future of
universities relies on how successfully they interact with their environment. Collaborative
linkages with research partners, including industry, can prove vital for research intensive
universities. However, indicator-based assessments of academic performance ma...
The ongoing globalisation of science has undisputedly a major impact on how
and where scientific research is being conducted nowadays. Yet, the big picture
remains blurred. It is largely unknown where this process is heading, and at
which rate. Which countries are leading or lagging? Many of its key features
are difficult if not impossible to captu...
This special issue collects six papers (out of 80 submissions) from the Science and Indicators Conference organized by the
European Network of Indicators Designers (ENID) in March 2010 in Paris, France. They cover quite different aspects of design
of indicators for policy decisions, ranging from internationalization policies in research (Edler and...
TheWeb of Science database is searched for hot fields in science. In this research the central themes are citation patterns and what we call citation-closures. The concepts citation-closures and hot are defined in the text. A scan on the data in theWeb of Science database is performed. The analysis is done at first on the 247 distinct science field...
This paper introduces a comprehensive system for classifying scholarly journals according to their degree of ‘application orientation.’ The method extends earlier models and journal classification systems that were designed to tackle the crude duality between ‘basic research’ and ‘applied research.’ This metrics-based system rests on a ‘Knowledge U...
This issue, inspired by the extensive scientific oeuvre of Anthony van Raan, provides a concise tour de horizon of current research evaluation topics and quantitative studies of science. A historiography analysis positions key documents, written by Van Raan and other authors, that helped define the present-day field of bibliometrics. A life-cycle o...
The internationalisation of corporate research is an issue with a large impact on strategic decision-making within the research-intensive pharmaceutical industry. However, sector-wide comparative statistics on the whereabouts of corporate research activities and the geographic distribution of their research partners is scarce. This paper describes...
Surprisingly, there is still no comparative information as to which universities are among the world's major providers of
science-based information and services to the business sector in general, and research-active industry in particular. This
paper presents the first results of statistical analyses to help fill this information gap. Our case stud...
