May 2013
Funding Allocation Methods and the Pathways to Impact of UK Academics
Commissioned by Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, this report analyses the links between research performance, research funding models and the knowledge exchange activities and research motivation of academics in the UK. It looks at the UK system of dual funding support in which university research funding is provided by both institutional block grants from the Funding Councils based on quality assessment exercises and by funding through peer reviewed competition from the Research Councils.
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20 March 2013
CBR Senior Research Fellow David Connell quoted in Research Fortnight
The Small Business Research Initiative, which uses government procurement to drive innovation, is to receive at least a five-fold funding increase, Chancellor George Osborne has announced in his 2013 Budget.
David Connell, a senior research fellow at the Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge, told Research Fortnight that the announcement is "really excellent news" but warned that the "devil is in the detail".
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January 2013
Research findings on achieving long-term economic recovery
The Re-igniting Growth report examines some of the challenges the UK faces after the economic downturn and explores a range of initaitives or challenges to policy thatcould hep kickstart growth.
The report includes interviews with key academics funded by the ESRC, including Dr Andy Cosh, Assistent Director of the CBR. Many of the interviews take unconventional approaches to a range of issues and provide objective - and sometimes controversial - responses to the economic problems the UK is experiencing.
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