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Research Performance and Evaluation – Empirical Results from Collaborative Research Centers and Clusters of Excellence in Germany

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Collaborative research centers and clusters of excellence constitute public funded programs aspiring to advance research in interdisciplinary forms of collaboration throughout Germany. Due to emerging funding volumes and increasing expectations in results, concepts for performance measurement and management gain in importance. Results of an empirical study among all actively funded collaborative research centers and clusters of excellence make obvious that key performance indicators – such as the quota of publications or the number of international visiting researchers – are central. Nevertheless, holistic methods and concepts of performance measurement seem still not to be widespread among respective speakers and chief executive officers.

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This work was performed as part of the cluster of excellences “Integrative Production Technology for High-Wage Countries” and “Tailor-Made Fuels from Biomass”, which are funded by the excellence initiative by the German federal and state governments to promote science and research at German universities.

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    Stefan Schröder, Florian Welter, Ingo Leisten, Anja Richert & Sabina Jeschke

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    Sabina Jeschke

  2. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, IMA/ZLW & IfU - RWTH Aachen Univers Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

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Schröder, S., Welter, F., Leisten, I., Richert, A., Jeschke, S. (2016). Research Performance and Evaluation – Empirical Results from Collaborative Research Centers and Clusters of Excellence in Germany. In: Jeschke, S., Isenhardt, I., Hees, F., Henning, K. (eds) Automation, Communication and Cybernetics in Science and Engineering 2015/2016. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42620-4_14

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