THE AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH GRANTS COMMITTEE: AN ACCOUNT OF THE WAY THINGS WERE

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Publicly-funded research granting bodies depend for their prosperity and survival on a clear understanding of the need to make their processes and outcomes important not only to the recipients but to the Government which provides the funding. This paper examines the processes and perspective of the Australian Research Grants Committee in the last years of its existence and suggests that its abolition and replacement by a different body are understandable in those terms.

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By Don Aitkin

Publicly-funded research granting bodies depend for their prosperity and survival on a clear understanding of the need to make their processes and outcomes important not only to the recipients but to the Government which provides the funding. This paper examines the processes and perspective of the Australian Research Grants Committee in the last years of its existence and suggests that its abolition and replacement by a different body are understandable in those terms.

page: 179 – 194
Prometheus: Critical Studies in Innovation
Volume 14, Issue 2

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