ABSTRACT

To survive and grow public Research and Development (R&D) centres need to raise competitive funds (Bazeley 1998; Lee and Om 1996; Muñoz 2007; Santamaría, Brage-Gil and Modrego 2010). The factors that can influence the capacity of national R&D teams within R&D centres to apply for and obtain competitive funding does not seem to have been studied in depth. The purpose of study is to firstly, to examine whether a consistent set of priorities defined by R&D centre lead principal investigators secures more competitive funding. Secondly, to examine whether the PI gender moderates the effect of the PI’s priorities on the amount of competitive public funds that the R&D team of the PI obtains. Our study focuses on R&D activities carried out in Spanish public centres in the areas of Health and Biomedicine. Our results found that there were no gender differences in relation to the acquisition of competitive funding which is contrary to findings of other studies (Mayer and Rathmann 2018; Lerchenmueller and Sorenson, 2018).

摘要

为了生存和发展，公共研发 (R&D) 中心需要筹集有竞争力的资金（Bazeley 1998；Lee 和 Om 1996；Muñoz 2007；Santamaría、Brage-Gil 和 Modrego 2010）。影响研发中心内国家研发团队申请和获得竞争性资金能力的因素似乎尚未得到深入研究。研究的目的是首先检查由研发中心首席研究员定义的一组一致的优先事项是否能确保更有竞争力的资金。其次，考察 PI 的性别是否会调节 PI 的优先级对 PI 的研发团队获得的竞争性公共资金数量的影响。我们的研究侧重于在西班牙公共中心开展的健康和生物医学领域的研发活动。