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SUMMARY:"Research Talks on Science Funding" with Professors Paula Stephen 
 & Fabiana Visentin
DTSTART:20190228T120000
DTEND:20190228T134500
DTSTAMP:20260929T053343Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Fabiana Visentin\, University of Maastricht & Prof. Pau
 la Stephan\, Georgia State University\nThis seminar will feature two speak
 ers on the topic of science funding.\n \nThe first paper\, by Paula Steph
 an et al.\, will focus on the meaning of risk in research and the role it 
 plays in funding. It will be a general discussion of what risk in research
  means and will present results from a study of ERC grants.\n \nThe secon
 d paper by Fabiana Visentin et al. is entitled “Does it Pay to Be Novel?
  The Selectivity Patterns in Science Funding”.  Funding agencies aim to
  fund novel breakthrough research to sustain the radical innovations of to
 morrow. However\, the funding process is not always awarding the most nove
 l scientists. Exploiting rich data on all applicants to a leading Swiss re
 search funding program\, Visentin et al. find that novel scientists have t
 he same probability of applying for funds as non-novel scientists but they
  get on average lower ratings by grant evaluators and have fewer chances o
 f being funded.\n 
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