The RECORD Manual: benchmarking innovative research organisations in European accession countries: Budapest, January 2004

This manual was designed in the benchmarking of the activities pursued in scientific research organisations that do or intend to support innovation in their economy and society. The authors of this manual think that the RECORD benchmarking methodology proposed serves a fourfold objective in the Accession States: - to help the spread of a modern management tool; - to map competitive innovative excellence, competencies, factors of success (and failures); - to improve performance and practice in the organisations and the national innovation systems concerned, in learning organisations and in the policy making process; - to provide a better basis for channelling of funds and allocation of resources and factors.