Who leads research productivity growth? Guidelines for R&D policy-makers

Scientometrics

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 273-303

  Jiménez Sáez, Fernando ^a   Zabala Iturriagagoitia, Jon Mikel ^b   Zofío, Jose Luis ^c  

^a INGENIO CSIC UPV Technical University of Valencia   (Spain)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Malmquist productivity index; Policy evaluation; Science and technology policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871918218     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-012-0763-0     Document Type: Article

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