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Politics and Money in British Science
Author(s) -
Engineer Martin Ince The
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
higher education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.976
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1468-2273
pISSN - 0951-5224
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2273.1987.tb02111.x
Subject(s) - politics , government (linguistics) , political science , public administration , economic growth , public relations , economics , law , philosophy , linguistics
About £8 billion a year is spent on research and development in the UK, and the money is found by bodies ranging from the UGC ‐ whose interest is in supporting good long‐term science and technology ‐ to research councils with strategic research and development objectives and firms and government departments wanting solutions to their own scientific and technological problems. And the structure for funding research and development in British academe is changing rapidly, in a highly political manner. What are the threats and opportunities for British academics in the new world of British research and development funding?