| This report assesses the performance of the Austrian research system against three complementary policy objectives, with a focus on basic research. The three objec-tives or dimensions are performance in terms of research quality, the socio-economic impact of research, and the direction of research to address challenges. For all three dimensions, the report attempts to identify areas for improvement and discusses – based on recent literature as well as international comparisons – starting points on how performance could be improved(https://irihs.ihs.ac.at/id/eprint/5423). |