PART I: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW

1. Public Communication Activities of Research Institutes: Setting the Stage with the Decentralisation Hypothesis

2. Why and How to Sample Research Institutes: Methodological Challenges

PART II: CROSS-NATIONAL COMPARISONS

3. Professionalizing the Communication of Research Institutes

4. Public Duty or Self-Interest? Public Communication of University-Based Research Institutes after an Era of Governance Reforms in Europe

5. Perceived Successfulness of Public Engagement at Research Institutes

6. An Emerging "Arms Race": Resourcing the Public Communication Effort

7. Public Engagement Profiles and Types of Research Institutes

PART III: NATIONAL SITUATION AND PROFILES

8. The Communication of Research in Italy: The Efforts of Academia and Research Institutes

9. Public Engagement at Research Institutes in the Netherlands: Fertile Territory or Terra Nullius?

10. US American Scholars are Finding Paths to Engagement through their Research Institutes and Centers

11. Public Communication in Japanese Research Institutes: Still Dark or Sunrise?

12. Communicative Dispositions of British Research Institutes

13. Public Engagement Activities of German Research Institutes: A Tale of Two Worlds

14. ‘Research Excellence’ and Public Communication in Portugal

PART IV: METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS

15. Studying Public Communication of Research Institutes: Sample Design and Data Collection

16. Framework and Indicators of Public Communication of Research Institutes