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Australia's federal government will embark on the gargantuan task of measuring benefits flowing from publicly funded research and plans to use those findings to allocate a proportion of the $8.2 billion spent on grant funding each year.
The announcement by the nation's tertiary education minister, Chris Evans, is a compete about-face from current policy, which measures the quality of research, but not its impact.
The task will be to measure the social, economic and environmental benefits flowing from government-funded research in universities, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, and medical research institutes.
full article: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/12/04/australia-plans-shift-measuring-quality-alone-impact-research
Inside Higher Ed
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