Performance-based Funding for Public Research in Tertiary Education Institutions
Subtitle: Workshop Proceedings
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]:
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9789264094611
Subjects: Education; Governance; Science and Technology
Description: Governments are seeking to channel research funds into universities and other institutions in ways that support high-quality research in strategically important areas and bolster effective knowledge diffusion. These issues of steering and funding have even more relevance in light of the current  financial crisis and economic downturn which have seen severe fiscal pressures fall on many countries. This publication presents a collection of papers presented at an OECD workshop on performance-based funding of public research in tertiary education institutions. It takes stock of current thinking and practice around performance-based funding of public research in tertiary education institutions, as a tool to help governments meet their research goals. These funding models are essentially systems of ex-post evaluation of research outputs and outcomes from universities and other tertiary institutions, and are generally based on peer review, bibliometric or other quantitative indicators. Their results are used to inform government decisions about how much and which institutions to fund.<!-- -->
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Executive summary; title: Résumé; title: Overview of models of performance-based research funding systems; title: Performance indicators used in performance-based research funding systems; title: Performance-based funding for public research in tertiary education institutions: Country experiences; title: Impacts of performance-based research funding systems: A review of the concerns and the evidence; title: Highlights and reflections: Rapporteur's report; title: Annex A. Workshop summary.