This article discusses how to organise and manage research to get the best performance out of researchers in terms of use of their produced knowledge. To this end we extended the strategic positioning theory developed to predict the level of the production of knowledge. The strategic positioning...

Purpose This paper seeks to understand the strategic behaviour of researchers when producing knowledge in two scientific fields – nanotechnology and social sciences. Design/methodology/approach The author conducted semi-structured interviews with 43 researchers to analyse the needs for...