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The breast cancer among women is a critical health and social issue worldwide. The goal of this study is to investigate breast cancer mortality in association with breast cancer incidence and socioeconomic factors between countries. Data of breast cancer incidence and mortality are from IARC/WHO...
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The science sector, in some European countries, is doing a strategic restructuring due to budget cuts (e.g. Italy). Thus, the measure and evaluation of research performance (metrics) of its units (public research institute) is needed. General models to assess the R&D performance of a public...
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the innovation process is very low (Slywotzky et al., 1997). Moreover, if we consider the SMEs operating in the mature … development, and for incremental innovation. The latter may often occur, not so much as structured research and development …-structured innovation patterns (Leonard-Barton, 1990; Langley, 1996).Although the SMEs located in this area are specialised rather than …
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Nowadays, in Italy the science sector is doing a strategic restructuring due to budget cuts. Thus, the measure and evaluation of research performance of its units (public research institute) is needed. This research uses the discriminant analysis (direct and Wilks methods) for measuring the...
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national system of innovation (NSI). This research shows four main types of research institutes as drivers of NSI. The results …
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Within the current debate about the role of public research in the modern societies and the relations between public and private research, there is an increasing interest towards a possible rivalry between fundamental and applied research. Some preoccupations arise from the fact that the strong...
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This study analyzes the action of the ‘space’ variable on the technological transfer activity, matching the traditional space approach (physical distance) to the modern one (interactions). The aim of this piece of research is double: Build indicators, using the two above mentioned...
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Aim of this paper is to build methodologies of performance evaluation for research organisations, using a systemic approach. This approach considers the interrelations between administrative and scientific activities. The methods are based on: i) ranks, ii) ratios [Max Index : 100 = index lab i...
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The process has been developed in three phases: 1) individuation and monitoring of firms with filtering method; 2) technological audits; 3) evaluation of the feasibility of technology transfer and activation R&D projects. Needs especially come out from firms of mechanical and automation industry....
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Aim of this paper is to analyse the users of technology transfer from Cnr Institutes of the Piedmont region in the 1996-1998 period. This work uses the data from the balance sheets (e.g.: turnover, etc.) of the Institutes. The descriptive analysis shows that the private adopters (e.g.: firms and...
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