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How Croatian R&D organizations support their researchers’ performance?

Sociological theories of science are mainly focused on macro-determinants of scientific knowledge production, often at the international level, at the level of transnational scientific fields or the level of national science systems. In spite of a long but discontinuous tradition - from the classical studies of industrial science to contemporary organizational STS and innovation studies, the social studies of corporate science have been neglected. Such neglect in Croatian case has primarily resulted from a deterioration of the transitional economy and consequently its R&D activity. With the aim to explore the organizational factors of researchers’ performance in business sector, an empirical online (web) study was carried out in 2012 on a sample of the 245 Croatian researchers mostly from the registered R&D organizations/units. Data on respondents’ social and professional profile, published and other innovative output were collected by a questionnaire. Researchers’ perceptions of organizational support to innovation were also examined by the use of questionnaire (OSIQ) developed by Pirola-Merlo (2000). Since OSIQ was earlier applied to a sample of the whole Croatian research population, a comparison between the public science and business sector can indicate in which sector the organizational factors are more supportive for researchers’ innovative performance.

R&D organizations; public sector; private sector; Croatia; organizational support

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