MORSe (Management and Organization Research Seminars): "Coordination modes in public funding systems"
Istituto di management e organizzazione
Data d'inizio: 05.03.2009
Data di fine: 06.03.2009
5th of March
room 251
12.30 to 14.00
Benedetto Lepori (USI, CORe)
Presentation of the paper "Coordination modes in public funding systems"
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to look to public research funding systems from the perspective of their broader institutional arrangements and of how these shape the relationships between funding agencies and research actors. Thus we consider public funding as a multilevel and multiactor system, where stable patterns are largely generated by the collective interaction between actors (beyond formal rules and structures) and where coordination between actors (especially funding agencies and performers) represent a key for the functionality of the systems. This drives us to propose a classification of the main organisational forms of public research funding in terms of their underlying coordination mode. Further, we develop the idea that national funding systems are composed by the combination of these basic arrangements and thus compatibility and complementarity between them are critical for the functioning of the system; this leads to identification of three ideal types of funding systems – the project-based model, the mixed model, the vertically integrated model -, which seems to describe the variety of national systems and to a large extent underpin today’s’ discussion on European research policy.
