14 research outputs found
Fishing for complementarities:research grants and research productivity
Get PDFAcademics 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 work. However, there are concerns that inefficiencies occur when funding is received from multiple sponsors, especially when this originates from different sectors. This study investigates complementarities between public/non-profit and private sector sources of research funding with regard to academic output in terms of publications, research impact and research orientation. The empirical analysis is based on novel data on external public/non-profit research grants and industry funding for tenured engineering academics employed at fifteen UK universities. The results suggest that while research grants are generally associated with higher research outcomes, industry funding decreases the marginal utility of public/non-profit funding by lowering the increase in publication rate associated with public/non-profit grants. At the same time, for more commercially oriented research, measured as its patentability score, we find some support for complementarities between public and private-sector research funding. These results suggest that provision of public grants is crucial to the production of research that is distributed openly through publications and proceedings. Private sector grants are important as they may enable more applied research trajectories for those capable of combining publicly and industry sponsored research
Fishing for complementarities:research grants and research productivity
Get PDFAcademics 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 work. However, there are concerns that inefficiencies occur when funding is received from multiple sponsors, especially when this originates from different sectors. This study investigates complementarities between public/non-profit and private sector sources of research funding with regard to academic output in terms of publications, research impact and research orientation. The empirical analysis is based on novel data on external public/non-profit research grants and industry funding for tenured engineering academics employed at fifteen UK universities. The results suggest that while research grants are generally associated with higher research outcomes, industry funding decreases the marginal utility of public/non-profit funding by lowering the increase in publication rate associated with public/non-profit grants. At the same time, for more commercially oriented research, measured as its patentability score, we find some support for complementarities between public and private-sector research funding. These results suggest that provision of public grants is crucial to the production of research that is distributed openly through publications and proceedings. Private sector grants are important as they may enable more applied research trajectories for those capable of combining publicly and industry sponsored research
Alumni Journal - Volume 86, Number 2
Get PDFFeatures8 | Interview: To Know the Truth12 | Rec Hall No More16 | APC 2015 in Review30 | Law and Medicine
Departments2 | From the Editor3 | This and That4 | From the President5 | From the Dean6 | School of Medicine News42 | AIMS Report44 | Alumni News45 | In Memoriam48 | Historical Snapshot49 | What\u27s Up Doc?
Extras14 | 2014 Class Giving Report19 | Dr. Bob\u27s Programs31 | The Good Samaritan (a poem)40 | Leaving a Mark on Dr. Shryrookhttps://scholarsrepository.llu.edu/sm-alumni-journal/1015/thumbnail.jp
Alumni Journal - Volume 86, Number 1
Get PDFFeatures10 | Physician Vitality: Care for the Caregivers16 | Interview: Pillars and Buttresses22 | APC 2015: A Preview26 | More than Medicine
Departments2 | From the President6 | From the Dean7 | This and That8 | School of Medicine News38 | AIMS Report42 | Alumni News44 | In Memoriam48 | Historical Snapshot49 | What\u27s Up Doc?
Extras5 | Office Staff Updates21 | APC Historical Piece43 | Perpetual Membership Updateshttps://scholarsrepository.llu.edu/sm-alumni-journal/1014/thumbnail.jp
President J. A. C. Chandler and the first women faculty at the College of William and Mary
Get PDFThis study examines the progressive leadership of President J. A. C. Chandler in hiring the first women faculty at the College of William and Mary and explains the relationship between his presidency and his twenty-year career in education prior to 1919. During the early heyday of hiring women faculty in higher education, Chandler employed women educators at levels equal to national rates and surpassing regional standards. He did so in conjunction with his efforts to establish full coeducation at William and Mary. Chandler led a crusade to transform the College from a tiny, mostly male college into a vibrant coeducational state college. He expanded the student body by more than tenfold, made the student body gender equal, built a new campus, and created a utilitarian curriculum for vocational training.;Chandler also took dynamic steps to hire women faculty at a time when most southern women educators taught in women\u27s colleges. He hired women to teach in a wide range of disciplines, sought them nationally, and treated them equitably. His willingness to hire women came from twenty years of experience working with women teachers in Richmond. Chandler made the College a model in the employment of women faculty. Through his dream to transform the College, Chandler opened the College\u27s doors to women faculty as well as to women students
Communicating Science
Get PDFModern science communication has emerged in the twentieth century as a field of study, a body of practice and a profession—and it is a practice with deep historical roots. We have seen the birth of interactive science centres, the first university actions in teaching and conducting research, and a sharp growth in employment of science communicators. This collection charts the emergence of modern science communication across the world. This is the first volume to map investment around the globe in science centres, university courses and research, publications and conferences as well as tell the national stories of science communication. How did it all begin? How has development varied from one country to another? What motivated governments, institutions and people to see science communication as an answer to questions of the social place of science? Communicating Science describes the pathways followed by 39 different countries. All continents and many cultures are represented. For some countries, this is the first time that their science communication story has been told
EBook proceedings of the ESERA 2011 conference : science learning and citizenship
Get PDFThis ebook contains fourteen parts according to the strands of the ESERA 2011 conference. Each part is co-edited by one or two persons, most of them were strand chairs. All papers in this ebook correspond to accepted communications during the ESERA conference that were reviewed by two referees. Moreover the co-editors carried out a global reviewing of the papers.ESERA - European Science Education Research Associatio
