Despite intense interest in defining the social, health and economic impacts of health
research investments globally1–5 and in Canada6–10 as proof of valuefor-money, no …

Governments world wide are increasingly demanding outcome measures to evaluate
research investment. Health and medical research outputs can be considered as gains in …

Abstract Alberta Innovates–Health Solutions (AIHS) is a Canadian-based, publicly funded,
not-for-profit, provincial health research and innovation organization mandated to improve …

Papers in this special issue were developed at an international workshop on 'State of the Art
in Assessing Research Impact', hosted by the Health Economics Research Group at Brunei …

Impact occurs when research generates benefits (health, economic, cultural) in addition to
building the academic knowledge base. Its mechanisms are complex and reflect the multiple …

As pressures to maximize research funding grow, biomedical research funders are
increasingly tasked with demonstrating the long-term and real-world impacts of their funded …

My personal questioning of the impact of my research career in health economics
subsequently led to a series of studies concerning the assessment of impact. That stream of …

This paper describes the approach taken by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
(CIHR) to develop a framework and indicators to measure the impact of health research. The …

Objectives (1) To test the use of best–worst scaling (BWS) experiments in valuing different
types of biomedical and health research impact, and (2) to explore how different types of …

As governments, funding agencies and research organisations worldwide seek to maximise
both the financial and non-financial returns on investment in research, the way the research …