Foreword -- Executive summary -- Introduction -- The growing significance of the research mission to higher education institutions -- Strengthening structures and processes for research management across the institution -- Funding and resourcing university research -- Nurturing the research career -- A question of scale and focus at the University of Adelaide, Australia: trends in research management and support at the institutional level -- Response to changes in research funding at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil -- A HEI with entrepreneurial orientation: Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal -- Restructuring amid crisis: Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany -- New working conditions of researchers: Université Libre de Bruxelles -- Building a research profile: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, Turkey -- Research management at Kebangsaan University, Malaysia: towards the making of a research university -- Developing research in a HEI: Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland -- Contributors.