Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the Bureaucracy within Public Research Bodies and in particular of the Italian National Research Council. The research is presented in two parts: the first one describes the methodology to measure bureaucracy and the sample represented by 11 institutes of National Research Council of Italy.
The second part, instead, analyzes the results of the bureaucracy within Public Research bodies Italian and compare them to the other international studies. The main funding is that the bureaucracy of Italian public research is due to high number of bureaucratic practices rather than the increase of administrative staffs such as in Norway and California Universities. Moreover the Italian Public Research institutes have two organizational behaviour: high bureaucracy – low performance and low bureaucracy – high performance.

Keywords:  Bureaucracy, Efficiency, Administrative staff, Research sector, University, Laboratory, Organization rules 

JEL Codes:   B2, C6, D00, O3