What Italy's Far-Right Election Victory Means for Science
Researchers fear further cuts to funding and a lack of action on climate.
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The Case for Lotteries As a Tiebreaker of Quality in Research Funding
The Case for Lotteries As a Tiebreaker of Quality in Research Funding
More funders should consider using randomization to choose grant recipients when decisions are too close to call.
Stress-Inducing and Anxiety-Ridden: A Practice-Based Approach to the Construction of Status-Bestowing Evaluations in Research Funding
Stress-Inducing and Anxiety-Ridden: A Practice-Based Approach to the Construction of Status-Bestowing Evaluations in Research Funding
More than resource allocations, evaluations of funding applications have become central instances for status bestowal in academia. Much attention in past literature has been devoted to grasping the status consequences of prominent funding evaluations.
Research Performance and Scholarly Communication Profile of Competitive Research Funding: the Case of Academy of Finland - Scientometrics
Research Performance and Scholarly Communication Profile of Competitive Research Funding: the Case of Academy of Finland - Scientometrics
The Academy of Finland (AKA), Finland's major public research funding agency, uses a Web of Science (WoS) based bibliometric indicator to assess the performance of research it has funded. CRIS-based publication data can support multidimensional assessments of research performance and scholarly communication profiles, potentially also in other countries and institutions.
70 Years of the SNSF: from a Few Million to a Billion
The SNSF has been awarding grants to research projects across all scientific disciplines since 1952. How has the amount of funding evolved over time?
A Helping Hand From the Government? How Public Research Funding Affects Academic Output in Less-Prestigious Universities in China
A Helping Hand From the Government? How Public Research Funding Affects Academic Output in Less-Prestigious Universities in China
This study, proposes that the positive impact of public funds is much weaker in less-prestigious universities than in prestigious ones, and that overdependence on public research funding in fact even hurts academic output quality in less-prestigious universities.
Rethinking the Funding Line at the Swiss National Science Foundation: Bayesian Ranking and Lottery
Rethinking the Funding Line at the Swiss National Science Foundation: Bayesian Ranking and Lottery
This article illustrates the Bayesian Ranking and Lottery approach for two SNSF grant schemes in career and project funding.
Scrutinizing the Collaboration Criterion in Research: How Do Policy Ambitions Play out in Proposals and Assessments?
Scrutinizing the Collaboration Criterion in Research: How Do Policy Ambitions Play out in Proposals and Assessments?
This study aimed to reveal how researchers describe the collaboration with partners outside the university in research proposals.
Upheaval in Norwegian Science Funding Threatens Grants
Firing of funding agency board alarms research sector.
'Dark Mood': Australian Researchers Lament State of Science Ahead of Election
On Staging Work: How Research Funding Bodies Create Adaptive Coherence in Times of Projectification
NATO to Launch €1B Fund for High Tech Start-Ups in Dual Use Technologies
NATO has launched a new research programme called DIANA to bring industry, start-up companies and academia together to research new dual-use technologies that address both societal problems and national security issues. The Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) is focusing on technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data processing, quantum-enabled technologies, autonomy, biotechnology, novel materials and space.
Keep Science out of Europe's Post-Brexit Arguments
Scientific collaboration has become a casualty of Switzerland's and the United Kingdom's tussles with the European Union.
Horizon Europe: The First Assessment
As the first year of Horizon Europe draws to a close, Science|Business gathered feedback from an online survey and meetings with its member organisations resulting in recommendations on how to make the next six years of Horizon Europe even better.
Impact Beyond Science of ERC Funded Research
More than one in ten ERC funded researchers have either created companies, transferred the results of their research to pre-existing companies, or both.
UK 'DARPA' Should Let the Sunshine in
There's too much secrecy behind ARIA, the United Kingdom's ambitious planned agency for high-risk, high-reward research funding.
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