Performance based funding: a comparative assessment of their use and nature in EU Member States – a working paper

Koen Jonkers and Thomas Zacharewicz ()
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Thomas Zacharewicz: European Commission - JRC, https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/index_en

No JRC97684, JRC Research Reports from Joint Research Centre

Abstract: The introduction of performance based funding regimes is one of the central mechanisms through which many EU MS have tried to increase the effectiveness of their Public Sector Research systems (ERA priority 1). Already in 2010, OECD Member States indicated their interest to engage in mutual learning on this topic. Given its prominence among ERA priorities and the fact that different EU Member States have implemented PBFRs with different characteristics, it remains an important potential topic for Mutual Learning among EU MS as well. The initial aim of this workshop is to provide an input to a RTD PSF Mutual Learning Exercise on performance based funding of universities. To do so, this working paper will present an overview of the different approaches taken by EU MS to use performance based allocation of organisational public R&D funding. In addition it aims to identify a number of issues which should be taken into account when evaluation/implementing these type of funding allocation mechanisms. It is the intention to build upon this report in future publications which will complement the qualitative analysis, with newly collected quantitative data for the EU MS and to use this as a basis for an assessment of the effect of differences in funding regimes.

Keywords: Performance based funding; public funding; R&D; research; Member states comparative analysis; EU (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 90 pages
Date: 2015-10
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