ISHS Acta Horticulturae 495: WCHR - World Conference on Horticultural Research
HORTICULTURAL RESEARCH IN ITALY |
| Authors: | F. Tognoni, G. Costa, G. Serra |
| Keywords: | Italy, research system, productivity, human and financial resources, funding, costs, public and private sector, universities, CNR, MIPA, environment |
| Abstract:
Italy is analytically taken as a ease study of how research in horticulture is organised and how productive it is. The key sectors making up the country's ‘research industry’ and their productivity as well as that of the researchers themselves are reported and discussed. The data underpinning the profiles of human and financial resources and their productivity were collected from both public and private research bodies that responded to the authors' questionnaires. For example, the respondents' replies were used to analyse the number and kind of staff engaged in, the facilities for, the financing of and the main bodies responsible for research—universities, National Research Council (CNR) and Agriculture Ministry (MIPA)—on a nation-wide basis. Who is doing what and where as well as the strength and weaknesses of Italy's horticultural research system are stressed. | |
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