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The current funding system needs a massive change at least. Funding should go to universities in general instead of specific projects. Get rid of most of the KP

• dahart 4y ago
  I’ve never seen KPIs in academics, is that a thing now? I’ve seen KPIs in tech companies who like to model Google. There is a lot of funding going to universities, and a lot going to specific projects. I think maybe the main model for research funding generally is that funding doesn’t just appear, people have to go ask for it in the form of a grant proposal. Those grants typically once granted go 40% to the university anyway. Universities, for their part, have been absorbing money for larger and more expensive administrations for the last 30-40 years, and it’s out of hand. Most people I know practicing science feel the opposite of what you said - that less funding should go to the university and more directly toward funding research.
• stewbrew 4y ago
  So that we can reinstate the old order of eminence-based science? I think the funding system should be rather be more anonymous, more global, more detached from local elites ... like universities, organization close to government/administration etc. You mustn't forget that universities are only one player of many in the science system. And the main task of some universities rather is education and not research.