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Government subsidies play a significant role in the funding of national research programmes. Many countries are currently restructuring their research funding mechanisms or adapting them, for example by creating new agencies responsible for allocating available resources or by implementing more competitive methods for awarding project grants. Additionally, it is possible to allocate subsidies specifically to certain goals or missions, thereby increasing the focus on the quality and relevance of research activities.
The European Commission's DG Research and Innovation has launched a study on the effectiveness of national research funding: does increased competition lead to better performance? The study is led by a consortium consisting of Empirica (Germany) and Dialogic, with the aim of providing a detailed description of the variation in competition-based allocation of public research funds across EU member states. The study is intended to support the work of the High-Level Group advising the Commissioner for Research and Innovation, in order to make well-founded recommendations.
