The emphasis on "impact" is a better fit with the real economy of research funding.
The Lipman Family Prize is an annual global award that celebrates innovation with an emphasis on impact and transferable practices.
A survey conducted by Charities Aid Foundation (pdf) in 2011 found that the UK's wealthiest donors placed considerable emphasis on impact when making philanthropic decisions with 89% claiming they would only invest in charities who clearly demonstrate it.
This emphasis on impact, social good, engineering and global health might just do the trick in attracting some of the most gifted students to these institutions.
All of this leads me to hope there will be a greater emphasis on impact investing, which may help resolve these problems.
More recently, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria's New Funding Model has put greater emphasis on impact measurement and allocative efficiency [ 21].
At the bilateral level, donors are beginning to restrict health aid flows, putting renewed emphasis on impact, co-financing and value for money [ 4].
In this study, we prospectively followed up HIV/AIDS critically ill patients to evaluate the key factors related to outcome, with emphasis on impact of severe sepsis on the short- and long-term survival.
Therefore, intervention efforts need to be focused on family and childhood environmental factors with emphasis on impact of role models smoking, refusal skills in social gatherings, and discussing harmful effects of smoking with family members and during gatherings with friends.
Excessive emphasis on impact may give disproportionate rewards to those who evaluate interventions discovered by others and bring them to market, without giving full recognition to basic researchers, who invent and bring new interventions to clinical evaluation.
