The Drawbacks of Project Funding for Epistemic Innovation: Comparing Institutional Affordances and Constraints of Different Types of Research Funding

• DOI: 10.1007/s11024-017-9338-9
• Publication Date: 2018-01-09T04:28:31Z
• Authors: Thomas Franssen; Wout Scholten; Laurens K. Hessels; Sarah de Rijcke
• Keywords: Affordance; Dominance (genetics)

Over the past decades, science funding shows a shift from recurrent block towards project mechanisms. However, our knowledge of how arrangements influence organizational and epistemic properties research is limited. To study this relation, bridge between policy studies necessary. Recent have analyzed relation affordances constraints grants research. potentially very different such as awards, prizes fellowships, not yet been taken into account. Drawing on eight case in high performing Dutch groups, compares institutional with those their effects We argue that prize diverge project-funded three ways: 1) more flexible use, adaptation funds during process compared to grants; 2) investments larger organization which beyond itself; 3), closely related, greater deviation standards. The increasing dominance Western systems therefore argued be problematic light innovation. Funding offer without scholars having submit project-proposal remain crucial support researchers groups deviate