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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
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* Funding per year, over time | * Funding per year, over time | ||
* Funding by agency | |||
NSF, “NSF Funding History - Sides,” Budget Internet Information System. [Online]. Available: http://dellweb.bfa.nsf.gov/nsffundhist_files/frame.htm. [Accessed: 15-Aug-2013]. | |||
* Funding by agency & discipline & state | |||
NSF, “NSF Funding Rate by State and Organization and Discipline.” [Online]. Available: http://dellweb.bfa.nsf.gov/awdfr3/default.asp. [Accessed: 15-Aug-2013]. | |||
* Funding by discipline | * Funding by discipline | ||
* Funding rates (e.g. success rates) | * Funding rates (e.g. success rates) | ||
Revision as of 00:37, 15 August 2013
This page is a literature review of the funding of science in the U.S.
Background
Specific facts:
- Funding per year, over time
NSF, “NSF Funding History - Sides,” Budget Internet Information System. [Online]. Available: http://dellweb.bfa.nsf.gov/nsffundhist_files/frame.htm. [Accessed: 15-Aug-2013].
- Funding by agency & discipline & state
NSF, “NSF Funding Rate by State and Organization and Discipline.” [Online]. Available: http://dellweb.bfa.nsf.gov/awdfr3/default.asp. [Accessed: 15-Aug-2013].
- Funding by discipline
- Funding rates (e.g. success rates)
Hardware design funding
- History
- Methods
Bayh-Dole
- Summary - initial law
- any updates
Critical literature of Bayh-Dole
- Joshua M. Pearce "Make nanotechnology research open-source", Nature 491, pp. 519–521(2012). and Joshua M. Pearce, Open-source nanotechnology: Solutions to a modern intellectual property tragedy,Nano Today, Available online 29 May 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nantod.2013.04.001 (open access coming soon).
- Nanotech thicket created by BD encouraging patenting of basic science - stalls innovation
How does the NSF decide on what is funded?
- How they work - http://www.nsf.gov/about/how.jsp
- Merit Review - http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/merit_review/
- Interview NSF on the phone how choices are made for what to make CFP on?
Critical literature on the NSF
- http://nsfisbroken.proboards.com/index.cgi
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=dr-no-money
How does the NSF determine return on investment?
- quantifiable metrics, what are their results
Science equipment spending
- How big is the scientific equipment industry?
- How profitable is it?
- How much money do US scientists spend on equipment per year?
- What are the big volume items - e.g. stuff that everyone of one type has in their lab?
- What are the big $ total items (e.g. sure everyone has test-tubes but if every school needs an SEM...)