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NSF invests $20 million in large projects to keep the nation's cyberspace secure and trustworthy: Three large "Frontier" collaborative projects highlight efforts to tackle fundamental challenges in cybersecurity.
The European Union's Horizon 2020 research program will offer researchers a generous source of funds for projects to resolve the challenges of today's society.
What they fund and how they distribute their funds.
The gravitational waves theorist saw physics as no one else did, but if he was around today his time would be spent chasing grants or tenures.
Paper underscores the limitations of peer review as a means of assessing grant applications in an era when typical success rates are often as low as about 10% in the US.
ERC funds 135 Proof of Concept grants, a press release.
Scientists who submit grant applications to the NIH will be required to explain the scientific premise behind their proposals and defend the quality of their experimental designs.
A statistical analysis of research funding and other influencing factors.
Science spending in Singapore is set to surge by 18%.
Research can only exist with good and secure funding, but when obtaining funding becomes a dominant part of investigators’ activity, the system has a problem.
The spending bill for the federal government ends more than 12 years of stagnant budgets for NIH.
Italian politicians have kindled the wrath of some biomedical scientists by hand-picking a stem-cell clinical trial for funding.
The ERC has published today an analysis of the portfolio of its projects funded from 2007 to 2013 under the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FP7).
The Wellcome Trust is to fund more long-term research projects because of fears that the pressure to publish and the need to show research impact will prevent academics from successfully tackling the world's most pressing challenges.
In the quest for the research money it is more important how researchers build their collaboration network than what publications they produce and whether they are cited.
Consultants think they can make publicly funded research more efficient. But they’re in danger of ignoring existing analyses – and real-life experience.
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the NIH has come up with a new system for funding researchers. Will the new Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award prove beneficial?
Funding agencies should highlight their roles as risk managers to underpin public trust.
There is an urgent need to reverse the decline in research funding, and a lot to discuss about how decisions are made. But setting up a death match between Big Science and the rest is not the way to go.
Researchers need freedom and the flexibility that leads to serendipity, and they should be encouraged to take risks even if it leads to failure.
For half a century, the government funded research. Times are changing.
The same organisations that make it difficult to get a grant can be ridiculously laid back about how their money is spent once they have signed it over.
Advertising science as a driver of economic growth is a long‐term losing strategy.
The paper develops a credit allocation algorithm that captures the coauthors’ contribution to a publication as perceived by the scientific community.
A new computer simulation explores just how sensitive the process might be to bias and randomness. Its answer: very.
Study on the benefits of competition in providing incentives to scientists and the adverse effects of competition on resource sharing, research integrity and creativity.
The government peer-review committees that oversee grants are conservative by design. Given that their job is to put taxpayers’ money to good use, they are often reluctant to take big risks. The opposite is often true for crowdfunded projects.
A perverse focus on research cash and high-impact publications threatens careers and the aims of science itself, says Dorothy Bishop
