How can research and innovation assessment be useful for librarians?

Last November I took part in a conference for Librarians arranged by Elsevier — the 6th Elsevier Nordic Librarian Forum — in Helsinki, Finland.

They asked me to talk about the use of R&D indicators in a policy context, which is — admittedly — one of my pet topics.

Elsevier actually made a write-up of my presentation for the January 2009 edition of their Library Connect newsletter, and, yes, i did get a chance to rewrite and edit it.

Here is the original slide show: