Does competitive research funding encourage diversity in higher education?

Hugo Horta, Jeroen Huisman and Manuel Heitor

Science and Public Policy, 2008, vol. 35, issue 3, 146-158

Abstract: Based on the evolution of higher education systems in the last 50 years, this paper discusses the use of research funding mechanisms as privileged instruments to maintain and foster diversity in higher education systems. We suggest that competitive research funding supported by non-standardised evaluative processes may enable differentiation among institutions according to their resources and capabilities to develop research, while also recognising the limit to the use of such policy instruments. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

Date: 2008
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