1. Note from guest editors

   • V. Lynn Meek
   • Grant Harman
   • Fiona Wood

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 1

2. The republic of science in the 1990s

   • Arie Rip

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 23

3. Effects of resource concentration on research performance

   • Ron Johnston

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 37

4. Foresight analysis in research funding agencies: A UK experiment

   • Joe Anderson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 57

5. Picking the winners by consensus: Grant-giving practice in the Netherlands

   • Dirk J. Van De Kaa

   OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 83

6. The role and influence of the us national science foundation's program officers in reviewing and awarding grants

   • James Mccullough

   OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 94

7. Priority-setting and economic payoffs in basic research: An American perspective

   • Albert H. Teich

   OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 107

8. Allocation and evaluation: The approach at the social sciences and humanities research council of Canada

   • Robert Hanson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 109 - 117

9. The New Zealand experience of a comprehensive fully costed science funding system

   • L. S. Hammond
   • S. D. Devine

   OriginalPaper Pages: 119 - 127

10. Excellence and relevance-two sides of the same coin

    • Max Brennan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 129 - 135

11. Funding of medical research in Australia by the National Health & Medical Research Council

    • Ian Mccloskey

    OriginalPaper Pages: 137 - 146

12. Cooperative research centres: The concept and its implementation

    • Ralph O. Slatyer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 147 - 158

13. But what's the bottom line?

    • Fred Jevons

    OriginalPaper Pages: 159 - 167