The first comprehensive handbook on theory and practice of public research funding.
Edited by:
Benedetto Lepori, Università della Svizzera italiana
Ben Jongbloed, University of Twente
Diana Hicks, Georgia Institute of Technology
This Website provides advance access to pre-prints of the individual chapters of the Handbook, due to be published by Edward Elgar in 2023.
To be quoted as: Lepori B., Jongbloed B., & Hicks D. (2023). Handbook of Public Research Funding. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., Cheltenham.
Contents
1. Public research funding: an overview and some core questions
Benedetto Lepori, Ben Jongbloed, and Diana Hicks
Public policies and research funding
2. What is public about public research? The case of COVID-19 R&D
Barry Bozeman
3. Motivations guiding public research funding in science, technology and innovation (STI) policy: a synthesis
Aixa Y. Alemán-Díaz
4. Politics of public research funding: the case of the European Union
Inga Ulnicane
Policy mixes in public research funding: layering and complexity
5. Ideas and instruments in public research funding
Giliberto Capano
6. Performance-based research funding and its impacts on research organisations
Gunnar Sivertsen
7. R&D programs as instruments for governmental R&D funding policy
Emanuela Reale, Magnus Gulbrandsen, and Thomas Scherngell
8. Size matters! On the implications of increasing the size of research grants
Carter Bloch, Alexander Kladakis, and Mads P. Sørensen
9. Potentials and limitations of program-based research funding for the transformation of research systems
Susanne Bührer, Sarah Seus, and Rainer Walz
10. Targeting research to address societal needs: what can we learn from 30 years of targeting neglected diseases?
Josie Coburn, Ohid Yaqub, and Joanna Chataway
11. The construction of competition in public research funding systems
Stefan Arora-Jonsson, Nils Brunsson, and Peter Edlund
Interaction of funding systems with organisational structures and hierarchies
12. Incentives, rationales, and expected impact. Linking performance-based research funding to internal funding distributions of universities
Jussi Kivistö and Charles Mathies
13. Research funding in the context of high institutional stratification. Policy scenarios for Europe based on insights from the United States
Arlette Jappe and Thomas Heinze
14. Public research organisations and public research funding
Laura Cruz-Castro and Luis Sanz-Menéndez
Researchers’ interaction with the funding environment
15. Reframing study of research(er) funding towards configurations and trails
Duncan A. Thomas and Irene Ramos-Vielba
16. Researchers' responses to their funding situation
Grit Laudel
17. Gender and underrepresented minorities differences in research funding
Laura Cruz-Castro, Donna K. Ginther, and Luis Sanz-Menéndez
18. Research funding and scientific careers
Julia Melkers, Richard Woolley, and Quintin Kreth
19. Funding and academics’ scholarly performance
Hugo Horta and Huan Li
System perspectives and country variations
20. Context matters: conceptualising research funding policies through the lens of the varieties of academic capitalism approach
Olivier Bégin-Caouette, Silvia Mirlene Nakano Koga, and Emanuelle Maltais
21. System level insights on public funding of research from emerging economies
Juan Rogers
22. Public research funding in Asian latecomer countries: developmental legacy and dilemmas
So Young Kim
EDITORS
BENEDETTO LEPORI
Co-Editor
Benedetto Lepori obtained is PhD at the Faculty of Communication of the Università della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano with a thesis on the Swiss research policy and is currently Titular professor at the Institute of Communication and Public Policy of the same university. He is a recognized scholar in the field of research policy and higher education; among his major contributions have been the development of indicators for the analysis of public research funding and the development of the European Tertiary Education Register, the reference database of European higher education. He has published nearly 100 papers in leading international journals in the field, such as Research Policy, Organization Studies, Accounting, Organization and Society, Studies in Higher Education, Science and Public Policy.
BEN JONGBLOED
Co-Editor
Ben Jongbloed is Senior Research Associate in the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) of the University of Twente in the Netherlands. He has worked at CHEPS for almost 30 years and published extensively on governance and resource allocation in higher education. Ben also teaches public policy and higher education economics in the University of Twente and Oslo University, and he regularly supervises students and PhD candidates working on their thesis. Ben has been involved in several national and international research projects for clients such as the European Commission, the OECD, and national ministries. Ben was part of the team that developed U-Multirank - an alternative to the existing global rankings in higher education. His recent work is on performance-based funding and embedding entrepreneurship and sustainability in higher education.
DIANA HICKS
Co-Editor
Diana Hicks is Professor in the School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology specializing in metrics for science and technology policy. She was the first author on the Leiden Manifesto for research metrics published in Nature, translated into 25 languages and awarded the 2016 Ziman award of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) for collaborative promotion of public interaction with science and technology. She co-chairs the biennial international Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy and was an editor of Research Evaluation. Prof. Hicks has also taught at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley; SPRU, University of Sussex, and worked at NISTEP in Tokyo. In 2018 she was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC RESEARCH FUNDING
by B. Lepori, B. Jongbloed and D. Hicks (Eds.)