http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=4932 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:36:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=4932&cpage=1#comment-11855 David Bruggeman Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:46:54 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=4932#comment-11855 That researchers and their advocates have failed to either recognize this, or argue for it (successfully or not), is one of the great failures of the knowledge producers in the American research enterprise. That researchers and their advocates have failed to either recognize this, or argue for it (successfully or not), is one of the great failures of the knowledge producers in the American research enterprise.

]]> http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=4932&cpage=1#comment-11847 bend Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:16:43 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=4932#comment-11847 Consistency should be the objective for science funding. Fluctuations in capital upset the delicate balance between supply and demand for professional scientists. On the academic side, for example, when funding increases generally, researchers higher more graduate students. When these graduate students finish, a certain percentage will seek jobs in academics. If funding is still high, many will obtain such jobs. When funding stagnates, however, these new professors face steeper competition for grants and often cannot finance their own labs. Completing this positive feedback cycle, now these new professional scientists ask for more science funding to alleviate the difficulty of competition so that they can hire graduate students for their various research projects. Consistency should be the objective for science funding. Fluctuations in capital upset the delicate balance between supply and demand for professional scientists. On the academic side, for example, when funding increases generally, researchers higher more graduate students. When these graduate students finish, a certain percentage will seek jobs in academics. If funding is still high, many will obtain such jobs. When funding stagnates, however, these new professors face steeper competition for grants and often cannot finance their own labs.
Completing this positive feedback cycle, now these new professional scientists ask for more science funding to alleviate the difficulty of competition so that they can hire graduate students for their various research projects.

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