Funder strategies for promoting research addressing societal challenges: thematic, impact, and collaboration targeting

Bidragets oversatte titel: Funder strategies for promoting research addressing societal challenges: Thematic, impact, and collaboration targeting

Maria Theresa Norn*, Kaare Aagaard, Josefine Bjørnholm, Andreas Kjær Stage

*Corresponding author af dette arbejde

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Abstract

Research funding instruments are increasingly targeted towards research that can contribute to solutions of complex societal challenges. How funders in practice seek to steer research towards addressing such challenges is, however, not well understood. This study explores how public, challenge-oriented funding instruments from three Northern European countries have been designed and deployed to steer funded research in desired directions. Our findings shed light on the practical levers that public funders use to influence research. The study also illustrates how these efforts are influenced by differences in their governance as well as in the choices they make about how to balance aims of promoting research excellence with aims of steering research towards other desired means and ends (e.g. economic and societal impact). Our findings highlight dilemmas and trade-offs in funders’ targeting efforts to influence the direction and outcomes of research, which ultimately influence the success of such efforts.

Bidragets oversatte titelFunder strategies for promoting research addressing societal challenges: Thematic, impact, and collaboration targeting
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftScience and Public Policy
Vol/bind51
Nummer5
Sider (fra-til)910-922
Antal sider13
ISSN0302-3427
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 1 okt. 2024

Emneord

  • Research funding
  • research funding policies and strategies
  • funding bodies
  • Challenge driven policies
  • Mission oriented policies

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