Does research organization influence academic production ?

Nicolas Carayol and Mireille Matt ()
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Mireille Matt: BETA - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: The paper analyses scientific research production at the laboratory level. The evidence on which the study is based describes precisely the research activity over the period 1993–2000 of more than eighty labs belonging to Louis Pasteur University, a large and well-ranked European research university. The research organization of the labs is analysed by focusing on the characteristics of the research personnel in relation with the scores in two outcomes that are publications and patents. The paper proposes a five-classes typology of laboratories that highlights different styles of research organization and productivity at the laboratory level. It also studies the determinants of the publication performances of labs. We show how appropriate combinations of inputs in academic labs may be strongly associated to high publication performances. We find that combining full-time researchers and university professors in labs tend to preserve incentives. Highly publishing labs also patent. The size of the labs, the individual promotions, and the role of non-permanent researchers and of non-researchers are also underlined.

Keywords: Economics of science; Academic research laboratory; Organization; Typology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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Published in Research Policy, 2004, 33 (8), pp.1081-1102. ⟨10.1016/j.respol.2004.03.004⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2004.03.004

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