Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Matter
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Summary
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Evolution of the U.S. Research Enterprise
  • 3 Understanding the Pathways from Research to Innovation
  • 4 The Usefulness and Limitations of Metrics in Measuring the Returns on Publicly Funded Research
  • 5 Measuring Research Impacts and Quality
  • 6 Understanding the Research Enterprise as a Complex System
  • 7 Conclusion
  • References
  • Appendix A: An Evaluation of STAR METRICS
  • Appendix B: U.S. Universities and Industrial Innovation: An Interactive Relationship Producing Economic Value from ResearchAppendix C; Annotated Bibliography of Selected Studies
  • Appendix D: The Study Process
  • Appendix E: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff