Wholesale Funding Instruments

2011 ◽  
pp. 135-168
Author(s):  
Michael J. Lea
Keyword(s):  
Funding Instruments

scholarly journals Priorities for Social and Humanities Projects Based on Text Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ülle Must
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
National Level ◽  
Final Analysis ◽  
Research Information ◽  
Member States ◽  
Auxiliary Verbs ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Funding Instruments

AbstractPurposeChanges in the world show that the role, importance, and coherence of SSH (social sciences and the humanities) will increase significantly in the coming years. This paper aims to monitor and analyze the evolution (or overlapping) of the SSH thematic pattern through three funding instruments since 2007.Design/methodology/approachThe goal of the paper is to check to what extent the EU Framework Program (FP) affects/does not affect research on national level, and to highlight hot topics from a given period with the help of text analysis. Funded project titles and abstracts derived from the EU FP, Slovenian, and Estonian RIS were used. The final analysis and comparisons between different datasets were made based on the 200 most frequent words. After removing punctuation marks, numeric values, articles, prepositions, conjunctions, and auxiliary verbs, 4,854 unique words in ETIS, 4,421 unique words in the Slovenian Research Information System (SICRIS), and 3,950 unique words in FP were identified.FindingsAcross all funding instruments, about a quarter of the top words constitute half of the word occurrences. The text analysis results show that in the majority of cases words do not overlap between FP and nationally funded projects. In some cases, it may be due to using different vocabulary. There is more overlapping between words in the case of Slovenia (SL) and Estonia (EE) and less in the case of Estonia and EU Framework Programmes (FP). At the same time, overlapping words indicate a wider reach (culture, education, social, history, human, innovation, etc.). In nationally funded projects (bottom-up), it was relatively difficult to observe the change in thematic trends over time. More specific results emerged from the comparison of the different programs throughout FP (top-down).Research limitationsOnly projects with English titles and abstracts were analyzed.Practical implicationsThe specifics of SSH have to take into account—the one-to-one meaning of terms/words is not as important as, for example, in the exact sciences. Thus, even in co-word analysis, the final content may go unnoticed.Originality/valueThis was the first attempt to monitor the trends of SSH projects using text analysis. The text analysis of the SSH projects of the two new EU Member States used in the study showed that SSH's thematic coverage is not much affected by the EU Framework Program. Whether this result is field-specific or country-specific should be shown in the following study, which targets SSH projects in the so-called old Member States.

scholarly journals Societal targeting in researcher funding: An exploratory approach through dimensions and interactions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Ramos-Vielba ◽  
Duncan Andrew Thomas ◽  
Kaare Aagaard
Keyword(s):  
Research Evaluation ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Exploratory Approach ◽  
Policy Concern ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
Potential Interactions ◽  
Funding Instruments

Shaping public research to enhance its societal contribution has become a key policy concern. Against this background, how research funding may stimulate the societal orientation of scientific research has been underexplored. This paper proposes a two-fold exploratory approach both to characterize and observe societal targeting in individual researcher funding. First, stemming from literature, policy and practices, we select four key societal targeting dimensions: interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, prioritized research problems and user-oriented outputs. All these targeting dimensions of funding can potentially shape both research networks and practices towards societal goals. These dimensions may be identified in context through ex ante specifications of funding instruments, in rules and conditions for funding provision to researchers. Second, we also consider potential interactions of funding instruments, since researchers may engage with various instruments simultaneously when conducting their research. Therefore, each researcher funding configuration at a moment in time may generate bespoke shaping of research, depending on the societal targeting dimensions present and whether funding is co-used to support different research topics and activities within a researcher’s portfolio. The combination of the targeting dimensions and their potential interactions would allow for empirical exploration at different scales and in diverse settings. They expand our understanding of funding use dynamics that might shape research. This systematic perspective on funding instrument characteristics and their configurational possibilities will be relevant to assess the role of funding in research evaluation. We conclude with both policy implications of this exploratory societal targeting approach to funding and suggestions to expand it in further research.

scholarly journals Building Impact Businesses through Hybrid Financing

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maximilian Martin
Keyword(s):  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Financial Sustainability ◽  
The Past ◽  
Organic Growth ◽  
The Social ◽  
Investment Capital ◽  
Funding Instruments

AbstractThe paper shows how social enterprises can be funded efficiently, and in ways that are compatible with their underlying business models, by combining both grants and different forms of investment capital. Financial sustainability remains one of the most pressing issues facing the social enterprise sector, despite rapid development over the past few decades. The paper sheds light on select funding instruments revealing how hybrid financing strategies can enable and enhance the organic growth of social enterprises and drive greater impact.

What we know about research policy mix

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Cocos ◽  
Benedetto Lepori
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Policy Mix ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Funding Instruments

Abstract The research policy (RP) arena has been transforming in recent years, turning into a policy mix encompassing the diversity of policy instruments embedded in, and following different policy rationales and aims. Its complexity defies attempts for complex comparative analysis and eventually, a better understanding of what kind of (mixes of) funding instruments work better than others and in which situations. In this article, we address this gap by developing a conceptual framework that allows us to build the policy mix idea into the analysis of research funding instruments (RFIs), by relying on four dimensions: policy rationales, implementation modalities, policy actors, and the funding instruments interactions. We base our work on a careful literature review, especially drawing on the work of researchers who have developed similar frameworks in other policy areas, bringing it together with that of RP scholars, capturing the issues that are key to analyzing and understanding RFIs.

scholarly journals Outlining the Orientation Toward Socially Relevant Issues in Competitive R&D Funding Instruments

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Orazio Spinello ◽  
Emanuela Reale ◽  
Antonio Zinilli
Keyword(s):  
Selection Process ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Funding Policy ◽  
Public Investments ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Socially Relevant ◽  
Actual Orientation ◽  
Funding Instruments

While project-based funding in public R&D investments has grown in importance in all European countries over the last two decades, there is widespread concern among decision-makers about the actual orientation of project funding instruments to promote societal well-being. The capability of public R&D investment to improve the quality of citizens' lives implies the pursuit of “relevant” social objectives related to existing or emerging problems affecting individuals’ lives and society. Particularly, when referring to project-funded research, the question of “relevance” in research objectives recalls the never-ending debate over how to translate policymakers’ request for producing value from public investments in research activities into “usable results”. The manuscript explores, using recent data collected at European level on public R&D funding, the portfolio of research project funding policy instruments of various public research funding organizations (RFOs) in order to shed light on how and to what extent it is oriented to address socially relevant issues. The authors examine the characterization of the single project funding instruments, which are intended to incorporate the motivations and targeted goals of public action, and the RFOs that manage them. They specifically assume that the actual orientation of funding instruments, beyond the declared objectives, is influenced by some features related to their implementation operated by the RFOs, such as the importance given to specific evaluation criteria and the composition of the evaluation panels in the selection process of the funding beneficiaries.

scholarly journals Place-based Transformation Policies for Decarbonization. The Art of Timing

2021 ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Ruediger Wink
Keyword(s):  
Regional Level ◽  
Window Of Opportunity ◽  
European Regions ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Recovery Plan ◽  
Funding Instruments

With the Covid-19 pandemic causing huge economic and social damages in European regions and revealing necessary transformations to cope with secular distortions in many markets, the European Recovery Plan with its funding instruments create a window of opportunity to stimulate transformative changes particularly in lagging European regions. The paper looks at necessary preconditions for transformative changes on a regional level to create a transformative environment for European firms. Specific challenges in former coal regions are addressed to emphasize the need for place-based transformation strategies, which also consider the need to combine short-term stimulations with long-term transformative perseverance.

scholarly journals National OA mandate and its potential conflicting relationship with international scientific cooperation policies: the Dutch case

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thed N van Leeuwen ◽  
Lieuwe Kool ◽  
Ingrid Wijk
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Scientific Cooperation ◽  
Second Best ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Eu Policies ◽  
Framework Programmes ◽  
International Scientific Cooperation ◽  
Funding Instruments ◽  
The Way

Open access mandates are setting standards on how to publish open access, as well as indicate the timeframe in which these goals are supposed to be reached. Parallel to the OA development, taken up both nationally as well supra-nationally, European and thus also Dutch academics are confronted with an increasing pressure to cooperate scientifically with European partners, via the consortia obligations expressed via for example EU funding instruments such as those under the more recent Framework programmes. In this study, the question arose to what extent Dutch output was directly under the Big deals, that means, a situation in which any publication with a Netherlands based author as corresponding author was involved, would get OA format published. The choice for corresponding author was a second best approach, as the preferred choice for this analysis would have been submitting author. In this analysis, also scientific cooperation was considered as an important element of the way output was created, and how that linked to OA publishing. The main research question here is: to what extent is the Dutch OA mandate hindered by EU policies to increasingly work together internationally for EU scientists?

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