Scholarship on higher education in the social sciences has for some time addressed the university as a social institution, the institutional realities of research and the changing roles of universities [ 32– 34], but these perspectives have not been integrated into the conceptual and funding frameworks supporting global health research or research capacity strengthening.
SDSA is part of the CEASIOM (Computerized Environment for Aircraft Synthesis and Integrated Optimization Methods) software environment which was developed within the SimSAC (Simulating Aircraft Stability And Control Characteristics for Use in Conceptual Design) project, funded by the European Commission 6th Framework Program.
MMC was involved in the study at the conceptual stage including: funding, ethics approvals, and managed study recruitment, data collection, data management, data analyses, and manuscript write-up.
The corporate sponsorship money will be used mostly to fund the conceptual design studies provided by the aerospace suppliers, each of which require 500 to 2,500 man-hours to complete, officials said.
Discussions are currently under way to build a so-called Ike Dike which would protect Galveston and the bay. the project is still in the conceptual stage and no funding has been allocated.
We propose that Georgescu-Roegen's The Entropy Law and the Economic Process is best understood as the elaboration of a general theory of economic production and we developed two conceptual tools (time and meta-funds), both of which are related to the dialectical distinction between process and not-process, which we use to operationalise this general theory.
CWJA contributed to the conceptual design, interpretation of data, funding of the project, writing of the manuscript.
AW, critically revised of manuscript and the design of experiments, contributed to the design of study, interpreted the results, obtained funding and gave conceptual advice on study design and data analysis.
CWB contributed to conceptual planning of the research, provided funds, and contributed to manuscript preparation.
This paper draws on the knowledge-base implicit in ex post evaluations of publicly funded R&D and other related conceptual and empirical studies to suggest a framework for the ex ante evaluation of the regional benefits from R&D projects.
