The phrase "allocation of science" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the distribution or assignment of scientific resources, funding, or research efforts.
Example: "The allocation of science funding is crucial for advancing innovative research and technology."
Alternatives: "distribution of scientific resources" or "assignment of scientific research".
The recent allocation of science and research funding [500k PDF] for 2011/12 to 2014/15 saw the UKSA being given £769,685,000 (926,028,000 euros) for the period.
In "From funding agencies to scientific agency: Collective allocation of science funding as an alternative to peer review," the researchers proposed a funding model that they claim would be simpler, cheaper, and fairer than the traditional funding system, and more amenable to high-risk research and chance discovery.
In the UK, this question is answered at the research councils: government agencies that manage the allocation of public science funding.
Mr Osborne also promised to implement the findings of the Nurse Review into the research councils, which recommended a new body called Research UK to oversee the overall allocation of the science budget between the seven existing research councils.
Today, researchers will begin to see if their relief was premature as they study the detailed allocations of the science budget that have just been released.
Critics of the allocation of resources to science projects argue that a school's brightest students should not be using a greater share of a district's resources.
In theory, decision-makers rely on scientific evidence to determine how best to maximise benefit in the allocation of ventilated beds, but science cannot tell us whether or not the initial decision to maximise benefit is just.
Economics has been defined as the science of allocation of scarce resources towards alternative ends.
Always an imprecise science, the allocation of shiny statuettes seems ever sillier as the gap between Golden Globe or Oscar nominees and the movie market steadily widens.
Because most scientific research is funded by government grants, public opinion holds great sway over the allocation of funding to and in science.
If there were a research project going for every set of hypotheses and every allocation of probabilities thereto, then would science as a whole imply nothing at all? Would accepted scientific opinion consist only of tautologies?
