Program-level assessment of research centers: Contribution of nanoscale science and engineering centers to US nanotechnology national initiative goals

Research Evaluation

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 368-380

  Rogers, Juan D ^a   Youtie, Jan ^a   Kay, Luciano ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

field level impacts; impact assessment; program evaluation; R D evaluation; research center evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870893712     PISSN: 09582029     EISSN: 14715449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/reseval/rvs028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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