"competitive funding" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to funding provided by either the government or private entities to various businesses, individuals, or organizations, based on the merit of their proposals. For example: "The organization was seeking competitive funding for its project, so it submitted a detailed proposal to the local government."
The Competition is a competitive funding mechanism established by mutual cooperation between GDN and the Government of Japan.
A simulated study found that in competitive funding systems there was spiralling competition with researchers spending an average of 55% of their time writing applications.
Ofcom also said that the idea of competitive funding could be extended to children's programming.
"We get 16% of the UK's competitive funding despite having only 10% of its population.
And the federal budget passed on Feb. 9 contains $100 million in competitive funding for "pay for success" programs.
Public sector grants and loans did exist to cover predevelopment costs, but were approved only through lengthy competitive funding rounds.
Provide competitive funding for sixth-year graduate students in the humanities, offering teaching experience and professional development.
The top 10 institutions got 50% of funding council research income but they matched that share in competitive funding and exceeded it in publications.
In times of an increasingly competitive funding climate, high-quality publications remain the currency of science and time spent on outreach activities equals less time for research.
Competitive funding: bidding from providers such as digital channels, existing pubic service broadcasters, newspapers and internet players, which could all apply to deliver a public service.
Science is competitive, funding is hard to get and tenure harder, and so even an honest researcher may wind up stretching the data to fit a publishable conclusion.
