Although competitive funding of public research has been characterised as providing output
incentives that raise efficiency and productivity, we know very little about whether the quality …

Public funding agencies aim to fund novel breakthrough research to promote the radical
scientific discoveries of tomorrow. Identifying the profiles of scientists being financed to …

ABSTRACT A major source of research funding for university professors are competitive
research grants. With focus on Luxembourg, we present results from a difference-in …

Academics are increasingly encouraged to acquire external grants to finance their research,
and often hold grants from multiple funders concurrently to ensure the continuity of their …

Competitive grant schemes are set up with the intention of improving research performance.
It may, however, be difficult to find evidence of the intervention impact of research grants for …

Based on a sample of research units in science and engineering at German universities, this
study reports survey evidence on the relationship between research grants and research …

Research funding has been undergoing a shift from recurrent, stable funding to competitive
funding of projects. The system rests on the assumption that the best proposals or the best …

This study investigates the effect of competitive project funding on researchers' publication
outputs. Using detailed information on applicants at the Swiss National Science Foundation …

The growing share of university research funded by industry has sparked concerns that
academics will sacrifice traditional scholarly activities to pursue commercial goals. To …

This paper examines the role of grant size in research funding. There is an increasing focus
in a number of countries on larger grant forms, such as centers of excellence, and in some …