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Segmenting academics: resource targeting of research grants

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  • Neil Viner
  • Rod Green
  • Philip Powell

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The allocation of research grants is a typical rationing problem in that demand exceeds supply, compounded by notions of fairness and legitimacy. Segmentation of fund seekers may offer the potential to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of delivery by targeting scarce resources more closely to need, thus sustaining legitimacy in the face of threats posed by scarcity and the political environment. This paper presents evidence for heterogeneity in an academic population consistent with segmentation and discusses how grant allocation managers might use this to target services and resources more effectively. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

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  • Neil Viner & Rod Green & Philip Powell, 2006. "Segmenting academics: resource targeting of research grants," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 33(3), pages 166-178, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:scippl:v:33:y:2006:i:3:p:166-178
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    1. Benedetto Lepori & Michael Wise & Diana Ingenhoff & Alexander Buhmann, 2016. "The dynamics of university units as a multi‐level process. Credibility cycles and resource dependencies," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 109(3), pages 2279-2301, December.
    2. Lepori, Benedetto, 2011. "Coordination modes in public funding systems," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 40(3), pages 355-367, April.
    3. Benedetto Lepori & Valerio Veglio & Barbara Heller-Schuh & Thomas Scherngell & Michael Barber, 2015. "Participations to European Framework Programs of higher education institutions and their association with organizational characteristics," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 105(3), pages 2149-2178, December.

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