Many shared service centres are being established in the Dutch government as part of an egovernment program, primarily in order to save costs. However, as literature shows, developing shared service centres proves to be a complex task. In this exploratory research, an initial taxonomy is created presenting various organisational, managerial and technological challenges that organisations can en...

OBJECTIVE To collect information on biobanking facilities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) as a first step towards establishing an LMIC biobank and cohort building network (BCNet) to support research, with a focus on cancer control. METHOD Sixty centres were identified from sources including cancer centres, universities, hospitals, and public health facilities and invited to partic...

This paper presents an analysis on the links among universities and public research institutes with the industry in Costa Rica. The study analyses information from three different sources. The first one is a data base from the national survey of science, technology and innovation in Costa Rica. The other one is a survey to researches in universities and public research centres. A third source i...

BACKGROUND/AIM To be fully effective, the prevention of injury in sport and promotion of athlete's health needs to be both targeted and underpinned by scientific evidence. This study aimed to identify the research priorities of International Sporting Federation (ISFs) compared to the current research focus of the International Olympic Committee Research Centres (IOC-RCs). METHODS Online surve...

The Dopamine Augmented Rehabilitation in Stroke (DARS) trial is a double-blind placebo controlled trial investigating impact of co-careldopa/placebo in combination with routine NHS occupational/physical therapy on functional outcome in people with acute stroke. Recruitment to the trial was lower than anticipated and recruitment predictions suggested that we needed to increase the number of recr...

Public funding of university and company-based R&D centres of excellence is widespread both in core and more peripheral regions in the hope of generating local knowledge spillovers. In this paper we examine one such initiative involving the establishment of 18 publicly funded R&D centres. Based on data from a real-time monitoring study, we explore the development of the centres‘ external connec...