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It was expected that research productivity would increase because of the BRI. This chapter examines to what extent this expectation has been met. Productivity did not increase overall, quite the contrary. By one indicator, it was close to constant; and by another, it fell by five per cent. The obvious conclusion is that the BRI did not have its expected effect. This conclusion, however, is not entirely warranted. The BRI did have an effect: the more the BRI was implemented, the more research grew in quantitative terms. In other words, had there not been an indicator to implement, it is likely that research productivity in Denmark would have dropped even more than it did.
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Mouritzen, P.E., Opstrup, N. (2020). How Great Expectations on Bredgade Were Dashed at Frue Plads. In: Performance Management at Universities. Public Sector Organizations. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21325-1_11
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