Benchmarking of RTD policies in Europe: ‘research collectives’ as an entry point for renewed comparative analyses

Philippe Larédo

Science and Public Policy, 2001, vol. 28, issue 4, 285-294

Abstract: Following the results of science studies, the paper proposes that international comparisons of RTD policies must, before everything else, focus on the productive entities in research (research laboratories, collectives and so on). Before going to the comparison of performance, account must be taken of the vector of outputs constituting research activities and of the choices made by laboratories as witnessed by their effective activity profiles. This is illustrated by an experiment done on 400 labs in human genetics in six European countries. It shows that the well known and striking differences between European Union nations, in terms of institutional structures and access to resources, do not directly translate into different productive patterns of research collectives, thus emphasising the self-dynamics of both the given organisations and, more important, their research collectives. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

Date: 2001
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