Excellence in the knowledge-based economy: from scientific to research excellence

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21568235.2015.1015106" target="_blank" >http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21568235.2015.1015106</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2015.1015106" target="_blank" >10.1080/21568235.2015.1015106</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Excellence in the knowledge-based economy: from scientific to research excellence

Original language description

In 2013, the European Union (EU) unveiled its new 'Composite Indicator for Scientific and Technological Research Excellence'. This is not an isolated occurrence; policy based interest in excellence is growing all over the world. The heightened focus on excellence and, in particular, attempts to define it through quantitative indicators can have important implications for research policy and for the conduct of research itself. This paper examines how the EU's understanding of excellence has evolved in recent years, from the presentation of the Lisbon strategy in 2000 to the current Europe 2020 strategy. We find a distinct shift in the understanding of excellence and how success in the knowledge-based economy should be achieved: in the early period, excellence is a fuzzy concept, intrinsically embedded in research and researchers and revealed by peer review. In the later period, excellence is more sharply defined and connected with a particular sort of knowledge that which produces breakthroughs; the result is that policy-makers have turned their focus towards directly steering and controlling what is increasingly considered to be the key element for success in the knowledge-based economy. This change is evidenced by the 'Composite Indicator for Scientific and Technological Research Excellence', its rationale and its components.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AD - Political sciences

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Journal of Higher Education

ISSN

2156-8235

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

217-236

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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