Today in most scientific and technical fields more than 90% of research studies and
publications are collaborative, often resulting in high-impact research and development of …

The focus of this paper is to review the qualitative case methods that have been used in
technology transfer research over the last 20 years from 1996 to 2015. Case methods allow …

The economic crisis of recent years provides an extremely valuable context for the study of
the effective role which R&D policies have had for governments, both as a potential tool for …

With this special issue, we would like to promote research on changes in the funding of the
sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Since funding secures the livelihood of …

This article addresses, conceptually and empirically, the classification of public research
organizations (PROs) understood as non-university and non-enterprise research-focused …

This paper employs the motivational trichotomy of financial rewards, reputational rewards,
and intrinsic satisfaction (gold, ribbon, and puzzle) to analyze the role of motivation in the …

This paper establishes a structural typology of the organisational configurations of public
research organisations which vary in their relative internal sharing of authority between …

Abstract In 1989 the Spanish Government established an individual retrospective research
evaluation system (RES) for public researchers. Policy makers have associated the …

From a Foucauldian approach, neoliberal rationality in science can be understood as a form
of governance of the self that produces mechanisms through which the subject is …

Over the last two decades, the Spanish higher education and research sector has
undergone profound changes, but little is known about the implementation of recent reforms …