Meeting on "Funding and Research"
with Donald Gillies University College London
and Emiliano Ippoliti University "Sapienza"
Organized by
Science & Philosophy Colloquia ROARS – Returns On Academic ReSearch
Room x – Villa Mirafiori – via Carlo Fea 2 – Rome 20 May 2015 – 15:30-18:00
8. • Harvard operating expenses = 44% founds of all Italian universities
• Harvard has 21,000 students 130,000 euro/student
• Typically EU: 10,000 euro/student
66 Italian universities
BillionsofEuros
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38. Research is risk
The real problem is to understand whom to reward
today, among the large magma of good quality
researchers, and how to pick those who would
become excellent tomorrow !
39. We conclude that scientific impact (as reflected by
publications) is only weakly limited by funding. We
suggest that funding strategies that target diversity,
rather than “excellence”, are likely to prove to be
more productive.
Research is risk
42. Technological leading countries
beyond having the largest production of scientific
papers and the largest number of citations, do not
specialize in few scientific domains. Rather, they
diversify as much as possible their research system