Fun new article from et al tries to quantify the efficient frontier for time spent writing grants vs. expected return in grant money. nature.com/articles/s4156
With an online calculator! ipvs.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/sc/cgi-bin/JA/
Preprint PDF: dreslerlab.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/why-ma
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The suggested solutions include more $ into the uni base funding allocation. Has any recent work been done to look at the implications of that allocation? It favours incumbents over entrants/innovators. DYK if this partial lottery has been tested?
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To your first question: I'm not sure, but I suspect the answer is yes! Would be interested to read refs.
To your second: NZ has been experimenting with funding lotteries; see e.g.
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(Not that a survey really answers the questions one would probably have about a lottery—haven't been able to find better details!)
- just saw your survey re NZ lottery participants. DYK of further progress to test them?
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No more surveys, but we are looking at the differences between the randomised groups. Protocol here: osf.io/mkj4t/
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