Bringing the lab back in: Personnel composition and scientific output at the MIT Department of Biology

Research Policy

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1633-1644

  Conti, Annamaria ^a   Liu, Christopher C ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Graduate education; Innovation; Personnel composition; Postdocs; Scientific laboratories; Scientific productivity; Technical work; University funding

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; INNOVATION; PRODUCTIVITY; STUDENTS;

EXTERNAL FUNDING; GRADUATE EDUCATION; GRADUATE STUDENTS; KNOWLEDGE WORK; POSTDOCS; SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT; TECHNICAL WORK; UNIVERSITY FUNDING;

LABORATORIES;

EID: 84945315174     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2015.01.001     Document Type: Article

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