Along with all other defence-related issues, defence research is a controversial area for EU action. Until recently, defence issues have not figured prominently among EU policy discussions and defence research has played little, if any, role in European technology policy. Although the Framework...

The spread of bibliometric indicators in research evaluation and policy has been accompanied by an increasing realisation that indicators’ use is often problematic and/or inappropriate. In this article, we propose a parsimonious framework to analyse the conditions under which the use of...

In the last two decades many countries in the periphery of the science system have developed policies to improve the ‘quality' of their science. These policies for ‘catching up' with developed countries include policy instruments based on notions of ‘quality' or ‘excellence' – either...