Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Geuna, Aldo
Author-workplace-name: MERIT 
Title: Allocation of funds and research output : the case of UK universities
Abstract: The paper develops an empirical approach for analysing the relationships between funding and research output. In particular, it focuses on how the changes in the funding structure of multi-disciplinary old British universities have affected their propensity to carry out research of a more applied nature. First, the evolution of the funding structure of UK universities in the period 1989-93 is studied. Then, in order to assess the influence of the funding structure on the research output, the characteristics of 47 multi-disciplinary universities are examined at the start and at the end of the period considered. The analysis developed offers some evidence to support the hypothesis that policies oriented towards a decreasing state financing of university research aimed at a larger university funding from industry may be to the detriment of the scientific research output of these institutions as measured by publications per researcher.
Keywords: research and development ; 
Series: Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 1997
Number: 002
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/rmpdf/1997/rm1997-002.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 99715
Handle: RePEc:unm:umamer:1997002