[open-science] Open Research Funding or How the NSF allocates billions of federal dollars to top universities

[Ulrich Herb]

Dear List,


this is probably not located at the heart of Open Science, but I guess 
it is interesting nevertheless (and a wonderful example for the benefits 
of Open Data): The Sunlight Foundation analysed the NSF's funding budget 
and detected (not very surprisingly) a strong Matthew-effect: 
http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2012/09/13/nsf-funding/

Two money quotes as appetizers:

“Twenty percent of top research universities got 61.6% of the NSF 
funding going to top research universities between 2008 and 2011.”

"Even when controlling for other factors, we find that for each 
additional employee a university has serving on an NSF advisory 
committee that university can expect to see an additional $125,000 to 
$138,000 in NSF funding."

Findings like these raise the question to what extent funding is part of 
any Open Science scenarios. Perhaps someone on the list knows more abut 
Open Funding and is willing to share this information.

Best regards


Ulrich Herb

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