Projects
Competitive research grants as Principal Investigator and selected team member participations.
Políticas públicas de apoyo a la ciencia ciudadana en salud: prevalencia, evaluación y representatividad
ACTIVE
This project investigates public policies designed to promote citizen science in health research. It focuses on the prevalence of citizen science initiatives in the Spanish healthcare system, the evaluation frameworks used to assess them, and the representativeness of non-professional participants. The project complements the CITI-SCIENCE grant by examining the policy and governance dimensions of participatory health research.
Science is undergoing a profound transformation in which citizens and civil society are increasingly contributing to the research process. This project examines the prevalence, characteristics, motivations, and organization of citizen science in Spanish healthcare. We distinguish three modes of participation — contributory, collaborative, and co-created — and investigate why biomedical scientists and non-professionals engage with or abstain from participatory research.
Scientific Creativity and Modes of University–Industry Knowledge Transfer
COMPLETED
This project examined the relationship between scientific creativity — understood as the production of novel, original knowledge — and the modes through which university researchers transfer that knowledge to industry. It combined bibliometric analysis of publication novelty with survey data on academics' engagement in knowledge transfer activities.
Knowledge Networks and Innovation in Biomedical Research
COMPLETED
A programme of research examining how the structural and institutional properties of scientists' personal networks shape their involvement in medical innovation. This work involved participation in multiple competitive grants including the French ANR projects The Impact of Research Excellence Programs (2016–2019, €208,900) and UTTO: University Technology Transfer and its Optimization (2015–2018, €283,760), led by Nicolas Carayol at the Université de Bordeaux, as well as two Ministry of Science grants at INGENIO led by Pablo D'Este.
Key outputs include work on brokerage roles and balanced triads (JPIM, 2022), tertius iungens orientation (Research Policy, 2021), scientific legitimacy and societal impact (Technovation, 2021), and collaboration patterns in translational research (Research Evaluation, 2023).
Key outputs include work on brokerage roles and balanced triads (JPIM, 2022), tertius iungens orientation (Research Policy, 2021), scientific legitimacy and societal impact (Technovation, 2021), and collaboration patterns in translational research (Research Evaluation, 2023).
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