The Outputs, Outcomes and Impacts of Research Collaboration

Abstract

In this chapter we consider impacts in three inter-related categories, impacts on knowledge-focused products, impacts on property-focused products and impacts on scientific and technical human capital (or “capacity-building products”). With respect to the first two categories, we recognize that outputs from a great many research projects and collaborative efforts have both property and knowledge goals. Nevertheless, this distinction retains analytical convenience, in part because it is reflected in much of the literature.