That's why FundaGeek, which is aimed at crowdfunding technology and scientific projects at universities and research institutions, offers both all or nothing funding for commercial ventures and partial, incremental funding for non-profit oriented research projects.
Our study underscores the need to join forces for patient oriented research projects on mechanisms mediating cardiovascular disease in pulmonary patients.
Selection of innovative health systems solutions for future oriented research may also capture the imagination of policy makers, thus enhancing the chances of influencing policy making [ 28, 29].
Open image in new window Fig. 3 The relationship between futures oriented research questions, methodological stages and outcomes in the field of European welfare policy research.
Future-oriented research projects must, by definition, exclude the execution of planned intervention(s), i.e., in a stricter sense, exclude implementation (with the exception of the occasional, initial implementation steps).
Furthermore, additional future- oriented research on megatrends would be needed to accommodate the complexity of the systemic perspective.
Finally, the PROPAINT project, "Improved protection of paintings during exhibition, storage and transit", (2007−2010) is implemented within the EU 6th Framework Programme, Priority 8.1 "Policy oriented research" [64].
This could be the starting point of future research projects.
Educational leaders (within schools, not only principals) who could in principle take an initiative for future oriented school development are preoccupied with other things than probing research and future scenarios.
This could be a question for future epidemiological research projects.
By highlighting some important knowledge gaps, we further aim to encourage future collaborative research projects.
