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Concentration of resources continues to be an important issue in the formulation of policy for the support of university research. In this paper, techniques for quantitatively assessing two dimensions of this issue, ‘between’ and ‘within’ committee concentrations, are developed. These techniques are applied in an analysis of the peer-adjudicated grants of the National Research Council of Canada for the years 1964–1974 inclusive. Results indicate that although ‘between’ committee concentrations have responded to changing priorities for university research, ‘within’ committee concentrations have remained remarkably stable over this decade. This is seen as having important implications for recent attempts at re-orienting university research in Canada.
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Chapman, I.D., Farina, C. Concentration of resources: The National Research Council's (Canada) grants in aid of research: 1964–1974. Scientometrics 4, 105–117 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02018449
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02018449