Why Research Management in Higher Education Institutions?
The concept of research management is not familiar to higher education institutions. For sure, most universities have a vice-chancellor of vice-president for research, but, if requested, most of them would deny they have a responsibility in research management. This notion, in fact, was born after Second World War for those organizations that have a mission to deliver research results on behalf of the government, such as national agencies and mission-oriented public research organizations (PROs), or on behalf of clients or constituencies, such as contract research organizations or nonprofit organizations. In this tradition, research management is considered a kind of sophisticated development of a traditional discipline in management, project management, assuming lot more uncertainty than usual. Witness to this state of the art is that the two reference journals in the field, one academic (R&D management), the other...
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Bonaccorsi, A. (2018). Management of Research, Higher Education Institutions. In: Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9553-1_573-1
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