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Muammer Maral – SAGE Open, 2024
This study aims to analyze the research performance of 38 OECD countries in the last 10 years. For this purpose, the research performance of these countries was analyzed using multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods with the productivity and publication impact data of 38 countries. The analyses were conducted both normal data and also with…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research, Performance, International Organizations
Gibbons, Michael T. – National Science Foundation, 2022
Research and development spending by academic institutions totaled $89.9 billion in FY 2021, an increase of $3.4 billion (4.0%) from FY 2020 (table 1). R&D expenditures funded from federal sources accounted for $3.0 billion of the total increase. Federally funded R&D expenditures had not increased by $3 billion or more since FY 2011, when…
Descriptors: Universities, Research and Development, Federal Aid, Expenditures
Trapani, Josh – National Science Foundation, 2021
This report examines R&D performed by U.S. higher education institutions. It discusses funding by source and S&E field for R&D activities and equipment and provides information on research space. It benchmarks the United States against other nations, and it looks at how academic R&D investments relate to investments in education…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Educational Research, Trend Analysis, Financial Support
Trapani, Josh; Gibbons, Michael T. – National Science Foundation, 2020
This report examines R&D performed by U.S. higher education institutions. It discusses funding by source and S&E field for R&D activities and equipment and provides information on research space. Academic R&D has grown every year since 1975 and remains focused on basic research. Most of it is performed by a small percentage of U.S.…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Educational Research, Trend Analysis, Financial Support
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Hwang, Youngsik – Policy Futures in Education, 2022
The STEM field has contributed significantly to the development of society because its findings result in new technology, which gives people more efficient tools and methods for a better standard of living. Postsecondary institutions have trained STEM field graduates through advanced curricula and learning environments. Compared to other academic…
Descriptors: Research and Development, STEM Education, Educational Research, Educational Finance
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, 2024
This is the technical appendix for the report "From Insights to Impact: Fostering Innovation through Texas" which examines the current national landscape of higher education research and development to help gauge Texas' current position and identify opportunities to drive further innovations into the future. This appendix includes the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Innovation, Research and Development, Technology
Falkenheim, Jaquelina C.; Alexander, Jeffrey M. – National Science Foundation, 2023
This report presents an overview of research and development (R&D) in science and engineering (S&E) fields performed at institutions of higher education in the United States, including historical trends and recent patterns. The report first examines the financing and performance of R&D at universities based on patterns in funding and…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Science Education, Engineering Education, Higher Education
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Frank Fernandez; Yuan Chih Fu; Xiaodan Hu; Juan José Moradel Vásquez – Journal of Higher Education, 2024
States have adopted a variety of policies to encourage universities to expand research production, with the hope of supporting economic growth and competitiveness. This paper considers whether a state-level initiative succeeded in influencing university-based research outputs among regional public universities. We test whether the Texas Research…
Descriptors: State Programs, Educational Policy, Research and Development, Public Colleges
Brian Backstrom; Patrick Schumacher – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2024
The State University of New York (SUNY) is the largest comprehensive system of higher education in the United States, currently providing affordable, quality higher education to about 1.4 million students across its system of 64 college and university campuses and its entire portfolio of credit- and noncredit-bearing courses and programs,…
Descriptors: Public Education, State Colleges, Economic Impact, Industry
Hu, Xiaodan; Ortagus, Justin C.; Voorhees, Nicholas; Rosinger, Kelly; Kelchen, Robert – AERA Open, 2022
Performance-based funding (PBF) policies with research incentives have grown in popularity over the years despite little understanding regarding whether they actually work. This study leverages a novel national data set to examine the impact of PBF research incentives on the research expenditures and total state appropriations among public 4-year…
Descriptors: Financial Support, State Aid, Accountability, Educational Finance
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Vlk, Aleš; Fojt, Otakar; Stanzel, Jirí – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2020
The purpose of our contribution is to discuss shortcomings of purely descriptive quantitative evaluation of research policies -- based either on inputs (public investment, number of researchers), or outputs (publications, EU grants, number of patents). To give an example, we compare selected indicators across Visegrad countries in the period…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Research and Development, Input Output Analysis, Investment
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Garcia-Alvarez-Coque, Jose-Maria; Mas-Verdú, Francisco; Roig-Tierno, Norat – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
This paper examines interactions between the presence of top-ranked universities and other conditions that encourage regional competitiveness. Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) was conducted to assess the combined effect of the conditions. The analysis yields several noteworthy conclusions. First, no single condition is necessary…
Descriptors: Universities, Reputation, Achievement Rating, Competition
Salwa Ismail – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Universities consist of students, faculty and staff, interacting through multiple layers of organization and on a variety of time scales. They are complex adaptive systems (CAS) yet the bulk of scholarship on higher education analyzes them using conventional social science methods, with little work that tries to understand them using complexity…
Descriptors: Universities, Systems Approach, Postsecondary Education as a Field of Study, Rural Colleges
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Lynch, Erin; Towns, Tangela; Allen, Louise – About Campus, 2021
The National Center for Educational Statistics (US Department of Education, 2016) reports enrollment in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) has increased 36 percent since 1990, with the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPED) reporting 355,058 students enrolled in HBCUs compared to 260,381 in 1990. The growth of…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Institutional Characteristics, Research and Development, Expenditures
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Hou, Chunguang; Fan, Peilei; Du, Debin; Gui, Qinchang; Duan, Dezhong – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2022
The knowledge production capacity of a country depends not only on its internal innovation factors, but also on its 'social capital' in the global network. International student mobility networks have become an important component of social capital that affects a country's knowledge production capacity. This study combines the social network…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Mobility, Study Abroad, Social Capital
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