Autor según el artículo: Osorio, Antonio; Bornmann, Lutz;
Departamento: Economia
Autor/es de la URV: Osório da Costa, António Miguel
Palabras clave: Research funding Random funding Inefficiency Funding competition Allocation
Resumen: Research groups spend time and resources in the process of applying for funding. This issue raises important questions regarding inefficiency and whether the currently used funding mechanisms are adequate. This article aims to identify ways of reducing the inefficiency and the waste of resources when making research funding calls. We look at four ways of reducing inefficiency. Inefficiency decreases when: (1) the most productive research groups are favoured over the less productive ones, (2) the call is restricted to a small number of research groups actively working on the subject of the call, (3) the funding process is less dependent on the amount of effort spent on fund-seeking activities by the research groups, and (4) the number of research groups competing in the same call is small. However, not all these mechanisms are equally powerful or easy to implement. Our results suggest that (1) reducing the dependence of the funding process on funding activities' efforts, or (2) reducing the number of research groups by narrowing the subject of the call to groups that are very active in the call's subject might be particularly effective in reducing inefficiency.
Áreas temáticas: Saúde coletiva Nutrição Medicina ii Library and information sciences Library and information science Interdisciplinar Information science & library science Información y documentación General o multidisciplinar Education Educació Ciencias sociales
Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Direcció de correo del autor: antonio.osoriodacosta@urv.cat
Identificador del autor: 0000-0003-3376-0164
Fecha de alta del registro: 2023-02-19
Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Enlace a la fuente original: https://academic.oup.com/rev/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/reseval/rvac007/6553360?login=false
URL Documento de licencia: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Research Evaluation. 31 (3): 289-296
Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Osorio, Antonio; Bornmann, Lutz; (2022). Research calls, competition for funding and inefficiency. Research Evaluation, 31(3), 289-296. DOI: 10.1093/reseval/rvac007
DOI del artículo: 10.1093/reseval/rvac007
Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Año de publicación de la revista: 2022
Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications
Repositori URV