The UK Research Assessment Exercise

Reconfiguring Knowledge Production: Changing Authority Relationships in the Sciences and their Consequences for Intellectual Innovation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Martin, Ben ^b   Whitley, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Funding; Government authority; UK research assessment exercise; University research assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921541378     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590193.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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