This report has been prepared for EUROLABS project (A Comparative Analysis of Public, Semi public and Recently Privatised Research Centres), developed by a Consortium lead by University of Manchester PREST, UK; CSIC-UPC-SPRITTE Spain; Ecole des Mines, CSI, France; SISTER, Sweden and ECOTEC, UK; with support from Technopolis France & The Netherlands, CNR Italy, Atlantis Greece, Luisa Henriques, Portugal and Andrei Mougatov, AGUIDEL, France. Funding has been provided by the European Commission. The complete report can be found at: http://www.cordis.lu/rtd2002/indicators/publications.htm ftp://ftp.cordis.lu/pub/rtd2002/docs/ind_report_prest1.pdfEuropean Commission