Research institutes, here defined as organizations involved in research and development but outside of the higher education sector and often in close cooperation with users, are found in most countries but not very well understood. This paper argues that institutes can be considered ‘‘hybrid organizations’’, caught in between dichotomous cultural spheres with differing values. To retain their h...

This paper leverages on the establishment of Italian Institute Technology (IIT) as a policy change useful to understand causal effect public-funded research centres regional innovative capacity. By relying Synthetic Control Method (SCM) approach and NUTS-3 panel data, empirical results suggest that IIT has positively impacted innovation high-skilled human capital, well growth. The also provides...

Dr. Parlett. It is my great pleasure this morning to introduce our next speaker, a man who has devoted much active research to mycobacteria. I enjoyed hearing him give a very interesting paper on Mycobacterium ulcerans infections at the last Leonard Wood Memorial Conference. He comes from Antwerp, Belgium, where, since 1950, he has been Director of the Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medic...

An important issue in determining current and future National Institutes of Health (NIH) support of rehabilitation robotics research is definitional: What constitutes robotics? Certainly, a wide range of devices are incorporating increasingly sophisticated microprocessors for control and identification. In the current context, we define robotics as semiautonomous systems that provide assistance...

I t is a truth universally acknowledged that an agency in possession of funds must be in need of a worthy cause. In this issue of JAHA, Coute et al review the funding record of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, to assess its investment in cardiac arrest research. These authors used a very systematic and replicable strategy to sort g...