Competency-based assessment of academic interdisciplinary research and implication to university management

Research Evaluation

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 93-104

  Kodama, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Watatani, Kenji ^a,b   Sengoku, Shintaro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MCKINSEY AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

co citation analysis; interdisciplinary research; portfolio management; R D management; research assessment; research collaboration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875157037     PISSN: 09582029     EISSN: 14715449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/reseval/rvs040     Document Type: Article

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