The number of research grants awarded to biomedical researchers is found to have a positive effect on their subsequent number of publications and patents but either no effect or a negative effect on the subsequent number of commercial contracts signed. The exception was ‘development grants’...

Existing empirical evidence suggests that public subsidies and fiscal incentives have a positive effect on the amount of private R&D expenditure. However, most studies have failed to address the possibility at least some of this increase may simply reflect the fact that R&D workers are being...

The Review of Research Policy and Funding Arrangements 2015 (the ‘Watt Review’), presents a well considered commentary and recommendations for how the Commonwealth Government should fund university research in coming years. What is clear from the report – and has been known by insiders for...