Practices and perspectives of research evaluation

摘要

The policy context for evaluation has been changing. There is growing recognition of the links betweenscience, innovation, economic growth, health, etc. The funding for research has increased, but with somestrings attached in the form of new models of governance of public research. Competition betweenuniversities and research laboratories has increased through research rankings, and there is increasedemphasis on evaluation of institutions and their research output. National research funding has grownand average annual growth in real government R&D funding between 1995 and 2005 has varied betweencountries but has outpaced the inflation index by a few percent. However, in large countries which arebig science producers, the growth has been somewhat constrained, which has caused quite a bit of angstin research institutions and the science system itself