Few Projects Are Islands: Issues with the Project Form in Publicly-funded R&D

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2011-09-15Author
Clark, Aleia
Hage, Jerald
Mote, Jonathon
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The use of project and project funding has become ubiquitous in science management and policy. Despite the success of some high-profile projects, we question the general movement to funding short-term projects. In this paper, we discuss the project form in publicly-funded science and draw on over a decade of field research in a number of publicly-funded laboratories.