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Does competitive research funding encourage diversity in higher education?
Hugo Hortaa b, Jeroen Huismanb c✉, M. V. Heitorb d
- aCenter for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research (IN+), Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal and at the Engineering and Public Policy Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- cInternational Centre for Higher Education Management, School of Management, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK
- dCenter for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research (IN+), Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
- ✉Corresponding author
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Abstract
Based on the evolution of higher education systems in the last 50 years, this paper discusses the use of research funding mechanisms as privileged instruments to maintain and foster diversity in higher education systems. We suggest that competitive research funding supported by non-standardised evaluative processes may enable differentiation among institutions according to their resources and capabilities to develop research, while also recognising the limit to the use of such policy instruments.

