Recently, there is a trend away from a model to allocate research funds on the basis of block grants to institutions towards resource allocation based on the principle of merit of individual researchers [7].
Universities' autonomy should be maintained, it says, as must core, "quality-related" (QR) research funding and the "dual support system", whereby the funding and research councils both allocate research cash, which Mandelson has already backed.
A community can allocate research resources in such a way as to maintain the balance of orthodox and maverick scientists most likely to facilitate progress.
As educators, journalists, lawyers, and religious leaders, they can sway public opinion on scientific matters; and as financiers and civil servants they may allocate research funding.
We simulate the effect of the National Science Foundation being able to optimally allocate research funds for nanobiotechnology research between universities and across time so as to maximize the aggregate amounts of the three knowledge outputs produced by the universities.
We identified resources and requirements to access and retrieve specific data elements in various settings to manage data collection processes and allocate research staff resources.
