Research

Bibliometrics

 

A Concise Introduction to Bibliometrics & its History

- by Wolfgang Glänzel

Doctoral careers

The “Centre for R&D Monitoring” Research Group at Ghent University focuses on Human Resources in Research. This includes the production of doctoral degrees, the careers of doctoral holders and research mobility.

Research Excellence

The last few years, the focus of public research funding is orientated increasingly towards programs of excellence. At national as well as supra national level, centers of excellence emerged and various grant opportunities were directed towards high profile researchers. The 6th framework program by the European Commission introduced Networks of Excellence to strengthen excellence in specific research areas. The focus on excellence was continued in the 7th framework program with the introduction of the Advanced Grants by the European Research Council.

Innovation Studies

The research done by the Innovation Studies group is based on the Community Innovation Survey and R&D survey data and methodologies, but is by no means limited to these.

The Innovation Studies group works closely with the Department of Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation at the K.U.Leuven. Among others, the research areas are:

 

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Technometrics

Patent analysis is one of the main research areas of ECOOM. The analysis of patent information is considered to be one of the best established, readily available and historically reliable methods for quantifying the output of science and technology systems. No other innovation indicator can be traced back over relatively long periods, and at the same time be disaggregated into low levels of analysis, relating to individual economic and technological units. Patent analysis also allows for accurate and precise mappings of the timing of innovation.

VABB/SHW

ECOOM-Antwerp is responsible for maintaining the Flemish Academic Bibliographic Database for the Social Sciences and Humanities (VABB-SHW). The idea behind the construction of VABB-SHW is to be able to count all scientific publications within the Social Sciences and Humanities disciplines, published by researchers working for one of the Flemish universities. In accordance to the BOF-regulation and the BOF-key, the VABB-SHW made it possible as of 2011 to distribute research funding amongst the universities taking into account all scientific publications.