This paper aims to examine the roles and competencies of project leaders in Algerian academic research, emphasising their contribution to effective knowledge production within research teams. The study adopts a qualitative approach, based on semi-structured interviews with 22 research project...

In perfectly competitive academic and idea markets, a divide emerges between elite scientists and the rest. The elite publish original, impactful work, while others - absurd heroes - struggle for recognition, often in vain. Though the original ideas game produces an equilibrium resembling...

Demographic ageing, a topic that is intensively addressed in the scientific literature, significantly influences the functioning of economic systems. Demographic ageing directly impacts the labour supply, productivity, savings, investments and the sustainability of public finances through...

Large language models (LLMs) can lower the cost of producing complex text, potentially reshaping competition for research and development (R&D) funding to private firms. We provide the first evidence on this issue using data covering the universe of firm applications to a major competitive R&D...

This paper develops a transparent, simplified version of Carnehl and Schneider (2025)'s model of knowledge creation. Our tractable framework, which yields closed-form solutions for key welfare trade-offs, preserves the essential economic mechanisms while eliminating mathematical complexity. We...

Bioenergy is increasingly recognized as a cornerstone of the global transition to sustainable energy systems. Given the field's rapid expansion and interdisciplinary scope, this study conducts a meta-level bibliometric analysis of 14,859 review papers indexed in the Scopus database. Using...

Academic freedom has come under growing strain across the world. To study whether and how academics react to political pressure, we exploit a natural experiment: the U.S. government's ''blacklist'' of undesirable words released in early 2025. We find that the release of this list leads to a...

Relatively flat US productivity growth versus rising R&D expenditures is often interpreted as evidence that ideas are getting harder to find. We build a new 45-year panel tracking the universe of US firms' patenting to investigate the micro underpinnings of this conclusion, separately examining...

Machine-learning models often perform poorly when asked to generalize beyond the support of the training distribution. This paper asks whether the same limitation shapes the research capabilities of autonomous large language model (LLM) agents: do they perform better when generating papers that...

Competitive public research funding is an important policy instrument to foster scientific progress. The effective design of such funding schemes and whether they generate knowledge spillovers to industrial inventions, however, remains debated. In this paper, we investigate the impacts of...

Analyzing more than 300,000 articles across 40 top-tier journals between 2000 and 2022, this study demonstrates that China's 2006 National Medium- and Long-Term Plan for the Development of Science and Technology catalyzed a surge in publication volume and citations, propelling China past the...

Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) account for most Welsh creative industries (CIs), positioning them as the main contributors to the sector's development. Despite the documented progress of the industry, there continue to be barriers hampering the engagement of MSMEs in research,...

Despite the potential significant benefits of AI in health and particular in healthcare, its uptake is slow. Main barriers include trust issues, understandability of outputs and patient safety concerns. While "trustworthy AI" has been embraced as a policy programme by various global regions,...

The report provides an assessment of relevant European Research and Innovation (R&I) projects on the decarbonisation of the waterborne sector in Europe, specifically focusing on the period from 2020 to 2024. The report analyses various projects and initiatives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas...

The report provides an assessment of relevant European Research and Innovation (R&I) projects on the decarbonisation of the waterborne sector in Europe, specifically focusing on the period from 2020 to 2024. The report analyses various projects and initiatives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas...

Purpose: This paper aims to explore the integration of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) into Sabadell's territorial policies, focusing on the development of an inclusive innovative ecosystem. Through various methodologies, the study seeks to enhance territorial specialization in design...

We investigate the phenomenon of home bias in scientific citations, where researchers disproportionately cite work from their own country. We develop a benchmark for expected citations based on the relative size of countries, defining home bias as deviations from this norm. Our findings reveal...

The paper evaluates the impact of the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) grants on profit‐oriented firms' post‐treatment performance. Using a quasi‐experimental design and a dataset covering applicants from 46 countries, we find that FP7 grants increase firms' sales...

The literature on the research-practice gap in agriculture has evolved significantly in recent decades. Although there is a well-established body of work on how farmers adopt agricultural research outcomes and the factors that influence their adoption, research on how researchers perceive the...

The increasing urgency of global sustainability challenges has elevated the role of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as benchmarks for both academic research and policy development. Within the European Union, measuring how national research systems contribute to...

In accordance with Article 66 of Regulation 2019/1896, Frontex disseminates its research results to the European Parliament, the Member States and the Commission. The Agency also makes public information on its research projects, including demonstration projects, the cooperation partners...

In accordance with Article 66 of Regulation 2019/1896, Frontex disseminates its research results to the European Parliament, the Member States and the Commission. The Agency also makes public information on its research projects, including demonstration projects, the cooperation partners...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fundamentally transforming the scientific process across all stages, from hypothesis generation and experimental design to data analysis, peer review and dissemination of results. In many research fields, such as the examined protein structure prediction,...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fundamentally transforming the scientific process across all stages, from hypothesis generation and experimental design to data analysis, peer review and dissemination of results. In many research fields, such as the examined protein structure prediction,...

This report provides an assessment of relevant European Research and Innovation (R&I) projects in the smart mobility domain. It analyses 247 projects, primarily funded through Horizon 2020 (126 projects) and Horizon Europe (121 projects). The assessment follows the methodology developed by the...

This report provides an assessment of relevant European Research and Innovation (R&I) projects in the smart mobility domain. It analyses 247 projects, primarily funded through Horizon 2020 (126 projects) and Horizon Europe (121 projects). The assessment follows the methodology developed by the...

The Research Fund for Coal and Steel (RFCS) is a European Union fund that supports research and innovation in the coal and steel sectors. Within the coal sector, RFCS focuses on promoting a sustainable and environmentally friendly transition, supporting the development of new technologies and...

Western societies face unprecedented interconnected crises - climate change, democratic instability, rising inequality, and growing science scepticism - that demand fundamental socio-ecological transformation within a compressed timeframe. However, current university systems, shaped by...