1. Os recursos de informação usados na I&D em Portugal: - caracterização dos centros de investigação do ensino superior público das áreas de Ciência, Tecnologia e Medicina
- Author
-
Maravilhas, Sérgio, Borges, Maria Manuel, Pulgurín Guerrero, Antonio, and Vivas Moreno, Agustín
- Subjects
GH. Education. ,H. Information sources, supports, channels. ,LC. Internet, including WWW. - Abstract
Information is a major resource to the functioning and survival of organizations. Today, in the top of value creation we find the intangible assets based on information and knowledge. In the actual economy, richness is created based on value from knowledge and innovative ideas. Organizations need information to compete in the global environment, to innovate and obtain competitive advantages in their activities. There are about 350 academic research units financed by the Science and Technology Foundation (STF) of the Science, Technology and Superior Education. The grants depend on external evaluation. This work paper analyzes and characterizes the academic research centers with special focus on Science, Technology and Medicine. Those are the principal creators of scientific and technical knowledge in Portugal, pushing business creation and being engines of social and economical development. We checked the data regarding 2007 evaluation from the STF and developed a questionnaire to understand the information sources used in R&D in Portugal. We found that Internet and WWW became the principal platform to access information by researchers, except for technical books that continue to be preferred in paper format.
- Published
- 2011