Sect. I. Evaluation Methods -- Ch. 1. Methods for Evaluating the Return on R&D Investments / Albert Link -- Ch. 2. The Use of Case Studies in R&D Impact Evaluations / Gordon Kingsley -- Ch. 3. Bibliometrics as a Tool for Analysis of R&D Impacts / Julia Melkers -- Ch. 4. Co-Word Analysis / Ron Kostoff -- Ch. 5. Peer Review and Evaluation of R&D Impacts / Barry Bozeman -- Ch. 6. Patents and the Evaluation of R&D / Maria Pipadakis -- Ch. 7. Operations Research Contributions to Evaluation of R&D Projects / Stuart Bretschneider -- Sect. II. Evaluation in Practice -- Ch. 8. Evaluating Federal R&D in Canada / Alain Barbarie -- Ch. 9. Evaluating Federal R&D in the United States / Ron Kostoff -- Ch. 10. Use of Quantitative Methods to Support Research Decisions in Business and Government / David Roessner -- Ch. 11. Evaluating the Industrial Relevance of Public R&D Laboratories / Robert Dalpe -- Ch. 12. U.S. Evaluation of Strategic Research: Closing the Gap With Europe and Japan / Susan Cozzens -- Ch. 13. The Temporal Dimension of R&D Evaluation: Incorporating Spin-Off Benefits / Marilyn Brown and C. Robert Wilson -- Ch. 14. Criteria for Evaluating Research Projects and Portfolios / Harvey Averch -- Ch. 15. Annotated Bibliography on Evaluation of Research, 1985-1990 / Harvey Averch