The inhibiting factors that principal investigators experience in leading publicly funded research projects

James Cunningham 1 Paul O'Reilly 2 Conor O'Kane 3 Vincent Mangematin 4
1 Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change
2 College of Business
3 Department of Management
4 MTS - Management Technologique et Strategique
Abstract : Securing public funding to conduct research and leading it by being a principal investigator (PI) is seen as significant career development step. Such a role brings professional prestige but also new responsibilities beyond research leadership to research management. If public funding brings financial and infrastructure support, little is understood about the inhibiting factors that publicly funded PIs face given the research autonomy offered by publicly funded research. Our study finds that there are three key PI inhibiting factors 1) political and environmental, 2) institutional and 3) project based. Traditional knowledge, skills and technical know-how of publicly funded PIs are insufficient to deal with the increasing managerial demands and expectations i.e. growing external bureaucracy of public funding agencies. Public funding is no longer the 'freest form of support' as suggested by Hackett (1990) and the inhibiting factors experienced by publicly funded PIs limits their research autonomy. We also argue that PIs have little influence in overcoming these inhibiting factors despite their central role in conducting publicly funded research.
Keywords : Publicly Funded Research Principal Investigators Inhibiting Factors Research Leadership Research Management Research Autonomy
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Journal of Technology Transfer, Springer Verlag, 2014, 39 (1), pp.93-110. 〈10.1007/s10961-012-9269-4〉
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James Cunningham, Paul O'Reilly, Conor O'Kane, Vincent Mangematin. The inhibiting factors that principal investigators experience in leading publicly funded research projects. Journal of Technology Transfer, Springer Verlag, 2014, 39 (1), pp.93-110. 〈10.1007/s10961-012-9269-4〉. 〈hal-00756228〉

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