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I percorsi della ricerca e dell’innovazione: un’analisi sulla condizione delle imprese in Sardegna
No full textInnovazione, ricerca e capacità di creare reti rappresentano alcuni dei principali temi alla base dello sviluppo competitivo, sia a livello di singola impresa che dell’intero sistema produttivo dei territori. I principali organismi internazionali sono concordi nell’affermare che le politiche volte a favorire la ricerca scientifica e l’innovazione tecnologica (R&S) siano determinanti per la competitività, osservando come solo pochi Paesi siano riusciti ad ottenere significativi miglioramenti in questo campo, nonostante le grandi opportunità offerte dai processi di globalizzazione e dalle nuove tecnologie. Nonostante il carattere strategico acquisito dalla R&S nel dibattito politico ed economico, sono due gli aspetti che sembrano emergere con forza in Italia: 1) il ritardo strutturale su tali temi rispetto al resto dei paesi europei; 2) una carenza di analisi valutative volte ad analizzare i risultati e gli effetti prodotti a livello regionale dai programmi ed investimenti pubblici a sostegno della R&S. L’articolo presenta alcuni risultati di una ricerca valutativa sugli effetti delle politiche a sostegno della R&S realizzate dalla Regione Sardegna nel periodo 1994-2006. Ci si concentra qui su alcuni elementi emersi dalla ricerca, in particolare sugli effetti ottenuti da tali politiche in riferimento alla capacità di promuovere servizi reali da parte delle agenzie pubbliche, di attrarre in Sardegna imprese esterne, e al grado di aggiuntività delle agevolazioni concesse. Inoltre, si analizzano alcune delle principali difficoltà che hanno caratterizzato l’intera ricerca valutativa, fornendo informazioni circa le scelte che l’amministrazione regionale ha compiuto sulla base di alcuni dei risultati emersi e dei suggerimenti offerti dalla ricerca valutativa.Innovation, research and networking are some of the main themes competitive development
is based on, at both corporate and terdtodal production system level. Even though
policies to promote R&D are considered crucial to foster competitiveness, only a limited
number of countries have expedenced significant improvements in this area, despite the
large opportunities offered hy globalization and new technologies. Notwithstanding the
strategic importance acquired by R&D in the political and economic debate, there are two
aspects that seem to strongly emerge in Italy: 1) the structural backwardness on these themes
compared to the rest of the European countries, and 2) a lack of evaluation analysis to
investigate results and effects produced at the regional level by programs and public investments
to support R&D. The article presents some results of an evaluative research on the
effects of the R&D policies implemented by the Region of Sardinia from 1994 to 2006.
The article focuses on some issues raised by the research, in particular on the effects of
these policies as far as the ability to provide services by public agencies, the capability to
attract itmovative firms from outside the island and the extent to which subsidies may promote
additional investments in R&D are regarded. In addition, some of the main difficulties
of the entire evaluation research process are analyzed, providing information about the
choices made by the regional Government on the basis of some of the results and suggestions
provided by this evaluative research
Analisi della domanda di innovazione e valutazione del grado di soddisfazione delle imprese beneficiarie di servizi e contributi
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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