Magnified Effects of Changes in NIH Research Funding Levels

What happens within the university-based research enterprise when a federal funding agency abruptly changes research grant funding levels, up or down? We use simple difference equation models to show that an apparently modest increase or decrease in funding levels can have dramatic effects on resear...

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Main Authors: Ghaffarzadegan, Navid, Diaz, Mauricio Gomez, Larson, Richard Charles
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/93207
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3797-3917
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2776-4900