Abstract
Currently, there are different types of University Research Centres (URCs) around the world. This research is focused on organizational structure and its influence on better research performance in URCs. In this case, URCs located in Aragon, Spain have been studied. A data set was extracted from their STI (Science, technology and innovation) indicators from 2000 to 2016. Using a self-built data base, constructed from reports, web pages and the university’s data set, this information was analysed using a mixed-method approach, which involves data panel analysis and case studies, as a way of determining how these institutions are organized and how these influences on their performance. As a result, those URCs which showed a complex structure emerged has the best performers. This kind of structure similar to corporate governance at URCs promote better research performance within each URC.
Highlights
There is a wide range of scientific institutions
This research describes a set of elements involved in structure/design and researcher characteristics in University Research Centres (URCs) belonging to the University of Zaragoza
Attributes of collaborating individuals and attributes of collaboration and processes are not analysed because the main goal of this research is to get a better mix of researchers and research institutions, while those aspects refer to the research collaboration activity that occurs inside a research institution
Summary
The proliferation of scientific institutions based on Science, technology and innovation (STI) has been promoted by local, regional and national public policy. All of them, according to local policies are focused on economic development (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD], 1999) These sets of institutions are defined according to different National Innovation Systems (Nelson, 1993). They are located in new buildings, constructed with government funding, in order to help promote their development (Toker and Gray, 2008) How they have been able to organize and how they have developed their capabilities and organize their resources has created a set of different institutions. This research describes a set of elements involved in structure/design and researcher characteristics in URCs belonging to the University of Zaragoza Those URCs are located in the Aragon Autonomous Community in Spain
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