Midterm evaluation of CIR
The midterm evaluation of CIR was carried out by Professors Gautam Ahuja, Koenraad Debackere, and Brian Silverman based on a self-report provided by CIR and interviews the committee conducted with CIR Management Team, PhD and Master students, fellows as well as the Scientific Council, Rector Magnificus, vice-deans of the Schools during their visit on July 4 of this year. The report the committee prepared evaluates both quantitatively and qualitatively the first 2,5 years of CIR’s existence based on the criteria outlined in the Standard Evaluation Protocol.
According to the report, since its inception, CIR has become a visible and recognized player in each of its main research areas, demonstrating the ability to publish in the top journals. The publication output has shown a steady rise; journal publication output has doubled between 2008 and 2010: from 21 to 42 publications. Besides numeric increase however, the committee was impressed by the increasing presence of CIR researchers in the top-10% and the top-25% of the management journals. In 2009, 28 out of 30 publications were in the top-25% of their fields, 6 out of 30 in the top-10%. Ability to publish innovation-focused research in the top journals in the field of general management is a remarkable achievement of CIR fellows.
The committee underlined that the high social relevance of the topics that are at the heart of CIR research agenda as well as the growing number of interesting collaborative projects with industry contribute to the high social relevance of the research performed by CIR. This relevance has been reflected in the CIRs ability to attract 1,2 million Euro in 2nd and 3rd money streams, which is beyond what was agreed on for the whole period of 5 years. This result bodes well for CIR’s capacity to attract an even larger variety in funding sources in the near future. Besides research output and quality and the excellent result in attracting external funds, the committee also pointed to some other important qualities of CIR, among others: the high quality of the PhD students, their creative ideas and their aspiration levels, multi-disciplinary and collaborative nature of the Center, the breadth and the depth of its international embedding and visibility, the very strong and effective academic leadership present in the institute.
The committee concluded with the following: “We find that CIR further adds value for Tilburg University along three major axes: (1) community building in the area of innovation and organization, (2) attracting high-potential PhD students and (3) building a strong international research network. To conclude, we are very much impressed by the depth, the international visibility and the quality of the research programme that has been developed at CIR since its start a couple of years ago”.
All the above aspects of CIR activity have also been assessed quantitatively on the 1-5 point scale. The results thereof can be found below.
| CRITERIA | SUB-CRITERIA | |
| A. Quality | A1.Quality and scientific relevance of the research | |
| A2.Leadership | ||
| A3.Academic reputation | ||
| A4.Resources | ||
| A5.PhD training | ||
| B. Productivity | B1.Productivity strategy | |
| B2.Productivity | ||
| C. Relevance | C1.Societal relevance | |
| D. Vitality and feasibility | D1.Strategy | |
| D2.SWOT-analysis | ||
| D3.Robustness and stability |
The complete mid-term report of CIR available here.
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