Third-mission policy goals and incentives from performance-based funding: Are they aligned?

Research Evaluation

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 427-441

  Rosli, Ainurul ^a   Rossi, Federica ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Higher education; Higher Education Business and Community Interaction Survey; Higher Education Innovation Fund; Knowledge exchange; Performance based funding; third mission

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016188090     PISSN: 09582029     EISSN: 14715449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/reseval/rvw012     Document Type: Article

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