Comments on: Cheaper to Skip Peer Review of Grants? http://canadaresearchfunding.org/cheaper-to-skip-peer-review-of-grants/ Your source for Canadian biomedical research funding news and information Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:38:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Robert McCann http://canadaresearchfunding.org/cheaper-to-skip-peer-review-of-grants/comment-page-1/#comment-64 Robert McCann Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:10:39 +0000 http://canadaresearchfunding.org/?p=162#comment-64 The proposed system of flat funding to all qualified applicants has been implemented in Switzerlands two elite universities, which are world-class and ultraselective in their hires. The negative of implementing this system in Canada is that the number of requests for funding would proliferate, if the entry barrier (i.e. risk of devoting preparation time to a grant which has little hope of receiving funding) is lowered. The proposed system of flat funding to all qualified applicants
has been implemented in Switzerlands two elite universities,
which are world-class and ultraselective in their hires.

The negative of implementing this system in Canada is that
the number of requests for funding would proliferate, if the
entry barrier (i.e. risk of devoting preparation time to a
grant which has little hope of receiving funding) is lowered.

]]> By: Harms and Company Consulting » Archives » Economics of Peer Review at NSERC http://canadaresearchfunding.org/cheaper-to-skip-peer-review-of-grants/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Harms and Company Consulting » Archives » Economics of Peer Review at NSERC Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:57:06 +0000 http://canadaresearchfunding.org/?p=162#comment-37 [...] CanadaResearchFunding.org blogged about a paper in a recent issue of Accountability in Research [16(1):13-40] written by [...] [...] CanadaResearchFunding.org blogged about a paper in a recent issue of Accountability in Research [16(1):13-40] written by [...]

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