Performance-based Funding for Public Research in Tertiary Education Institutions: Workshop Proceedings. Fuente: OVTT de la U de Alicante

Pages: 187 ISBN 978-92-64-09461-1 Published: Dec. 2010

Table of contents Executive summary (pdf) Get the book Governments are seeking to channel research funds into universities and other institutions in ways that support high-quality research in strategically important areas and bolster effective knowledge diffusion. These issues of steering and funding have even more relevance in light of the current  financial crisis and economic downturn which have seen severe fiscal pressures fall on many countries.

This publication presents a collection of papers presented at a June 2010 OECD workshop on performance-based funding for public research in tertiary education institutions. It takes stock of current thinking and practice around performance-based funding for public research in tertiary education institutions, as a tool to help governments meet their research goals. These funding models are essentially systems of ex-post evaluation of research outputs and outcomes from universities and other tertiary institutions, and are generally based on peer review, bibliometrics or other quantitative indicators. Their results are used to inform government decisions about how much and which institutions to fund.

An online annex (pdf) provides additional detail of the performance-based funding systems in place in Australia, Austria, Belgium (Flemish Community), the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, Poland and the United Kingdom.

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Table of contents

Executive summary (download pdf)

Chapter 1. Overview of models of performance-based research funding systems

Chapter 2. Performance indicators used in performance-based research funding systems

Chapter 3. Performance-based funding for public research in tertiary education institutions: Country experiences

Chapter 4. Impacts of performance-based research funding systems: A review of the concerns and the evidence

Chapter 5. Highlights and reflections: Rapporteur’s report

Annex. Workshop summary

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Related documents:

• OECD-Norway Workshop on Performance-based Funding for Public Research in Tertiary Education Institutions (English)