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2ResearchProf. Erik Schut, PhD, director of researchiBMG is a multidisciplinary Institute whose research activities are centred on complexissues in the domain of health care. The research programme has three main themes:(i) Competition and regulation in health care, (ii) Quality and efficiency in health care,(iii) Management and organisation of health care delivery.iBMG’s academic staff is organised intofive autonomous research groups: HealthServices Management & Organisation,Health Economics-iMTA, Law & Health Care,Health Care Governance, and HealthInsurance. Researchers from each groupparticipate in one or more main researchthemes.Growth, both qualitatively andquantitatively, is the veryword to describe iBMG’sresearch efforts overthe years 2009 and2010. For example,the number ofpublications ininternationalscientific peerreview journalshas considerablyincreased, from 100in 2007 to over 160 in 2010. Likewise, theimpact of our research, measured withthe CWTS citation score, has substantiallyincreased to over 60% above the worldaverage with regard to iBMG’s major fieldsof research.The growth is also reflected by the sharprise in the number of PhD students in theInstitute. Furthermore we haveacquired substantially moreexternal research grants(such as ZonMw grantsand Europeansubsidies).Between 2008and 2010 the sumtotal of externalresearch grantswent up from € 1.3million to over € 2.38