http://www.esa.org/esablog/ecology-in-policy/forget-peer-review-give-everyone-a-grant/ EcoTone focuses on ecological science in the news and its use in policy, conservation and education. Thu, 16 May 2013 19:04:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.esa.org/esablog/ecology-in-policy/forget-peer-review-give-everyone-a-grant/comment-page-1/#comment-13327 Christine Buckley Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:09:09 +0000 http://www.esa.org/esablog/?p=842#comment-13327 In the authors’ scenario, money would be given to all 9,000 faculty members of science and engineering with appointments at eligible Canadian universities. Although only about a third of eligible faculty applied for money in 2006, if all 9,000 were given $30,000 each, it would still cost less than the current NSERC budget for Discovery grants.

]]> http://www.esa.org/esablog/ecology-in-policy/forget-peer-review-give-everyone-a-grant/comment-page-1/#comment-13326 Chris Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:38:17 +0000 http://www.esa.org/esablog/?p=842#comment-13326 It seems like this assumes static numbers of grant seekers. Wouldn’t free money draw in more people and thus up the cost of the free money?

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