How should the productivity of research universities be measured? This task is difficult but important. The recent … Research Excellence Framework in the UK, which was based on peer review, suggests that there has been a marked improvement in … UK academic research in economics and in many other subjects. But is it possible to design an objective check on, and …

Governments, funding agencies and policy makers have high expectations on research, development and innovation (RDI … associated with their selection and evaluation are therefore high.Cost-benefit analysis of RDI infrastructures is a new field …. The intangible nature of some benefits and the uncertainty associated to the achievement of research results have often …