Detailed comparisons are complicated because the big picture is made up of various schemes to fund research, infrastructure, and capacity building, but a useful sense of the numbers can be gleaned from the Royal Society's analysis.
The moratorium delayed the development of regulatory guidelines and research infrastructure such as the building of 'containment facilities for source pigs' (National Health Medical Research Council NHMRC 2009b, 9).
This provides a much needed starting place for the allocation of funds and building research infrastructure.
Governments attending the 2008 Global Ministerial Forum on Research for Health in Bamako, Mali, agreed on the importance of building research infrastructure into health systems [ 33, 34].
This paper describes the first three years of the consortium and reports the outcome of a needs assessment undertaken regarding the southern partner universities' research infrastructure and other capacity building needs.
Speakers repeatedly emphasized the requirement to build research capacity within Africa for genomics, both by building physical research infrastructure and by training and retaining African scientists.
While in the official documents the practical business of building a common research infrastructure has been framed mostly as a 'technical problem' of database interoperability and integration, a challenge thrown out in the policy documents to the bioinformaticians, the definition of a common information model was called fundamentally into question.
To undertake research-related activities, institutions need to invest in research infrastructure, such as state-of-the-art equipment, buildings, laboratories, and databases required to conduct research.
These criteria included research quality, scientific innovation and opportunity, portfolio diversification, and infrastructure building.
Capacity building is obviously crucial in countries where research infrastructure may be weak.
