Virtues and limits of competitive funds to finance research and innovation: The case of Mexican agriculture
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Auteurs : Alexandre O. Vera-Cruz ; Gabriela Dutrénit ; Griselda Martínez ; Arturo Torres-Vargas ; Javier Ekboir ; Javier EkboirSource :
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Competitive funds (CF) have become a preferred mechanism to allocate research funding, particularly in developing countries, to the point that they are the most important (and often unique) source of funds. Most analysis of CF assumes that they are an efficient instrument to allocate research funds, without realizing that other allocation mechanisms are available. The funding agency only has limited knowledge about the effectiveness of CF. This paper reviews the experience of the Mexican Produce Foundations with CF in the agriculture sector and discusses some benefits and limits of using CF as the main mechanism to fund research in a country with a relatively weak national innovation system, a relatively small research system, and some very innovative actors in the agricultural system.
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This paper reviews the experience of the Mexican Produce Foundations with CF in the agriculture sector and discusses some benefits and limits of using CF as the main mechanism to fund research in a country with a relatively weak national innovation system, a relatively small research system, and some very innovative actors in the agricultural system.</p></abstract></article-meta></front></article></istex:document></istex:metadataXml><mods version="3.6"><titleInfo><title>Virtues and limits of competitive funds to finance research and innovation: The case of Mexican agriculture</title></titleInfo><titleInfo type="alternative" contentType="CDATA"><title>Virtues and limits of competitive funds to finance research and innovation: The case of Mexican agriculture</title></titleInfo><name type="personal" displayLabel="corresp"><namePart type="given">Alexandre O</namePart><namePart type="family">Vera-Cruz</namePart><affiliation>Metropolitan Autonomous University Campus Xochimilco, Calzada del Hueso 1100, Col. 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Villa Quietud, Coyoacán, Mexico City 04968, Mexico, Bosques de Fontainbleau 48, casa G, C.P. 53297 Naucalpan, Edo. de Mexico, Mexico</affiliation><affiliation>E-mail: veracruz@correo.xoc.uam.mx</affiliation><role><roleTerm type="text">author</roleTerm></role></name><name type="personal"><namePart type="given">Arturo</namePart><namePart type="family">Torres-Vargas</namePart><affiliation>Metropolitan Autonomous University Campus Xochimilco, Calzada del Hueso 1100, Col. Villa Quietud, Coyoacán, Mexico City 04968, Mexico, Bosques de Fontainbleau 48, casa G, C.P. 53297 Naucalpan, Edo. de Mexico, Mexico</affiliation><affiliation>E-mail: veracruz@correo.xoc.uam.mx</affiliation><role><roleTerm type="text">author</roleTerm></role></name><name type="personal"><namePart type="given">Javier</namePart><namePart type="family">Ekboir</namePart><affiliation>Metropolitan Autonomous University Campus Xochimilco, Calzada del Hueso 1100, Col. Villa Quietud, Coyoacán, Mexico City 04968, Mexico, Bosques de Fontainbleau 48, casa G, C.P. 53297 Naucalpan, Edo. de Mexico, Mexico</affiliation><affiliation>E-mail: veracruz@correo.xoc.uam.mx</affiliation><description>independent consultant</description><role><roleTerm type="text">author</roleTerm></role></name><name type="personal"><namePart type="given">Javier</namePart><namePart type="family">Ekboir</namePart><affiliation>Bosques de Fontainbleau 48, casa G, C.P. 53297 Naucalpan, Edo. de Mexico, Mexico. Email: jekboir@prodigy.net.mx; Tel: +52 55 5364 1323</affiliation><affiliation>E-mail: veracruz@correo.xoc.uam.mx</affiliation><description>independent consultant</description></name><typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource><genre type="research-article" displayLabel="research-article"></genre><originInfo><publisher>Beech Tree Publishing</publisher><dateIssued encoding="w3cdtf">2008-08</dateIssued><copyrightDate encoding="w3cdtf">2008</copyrightDate></originInfo><physicalDescription><internetMediaType>text/html</internetMediaType></physicalDescription><abstract>Competitive funds (CF) have become a preferred mechanism to allocate research funding, particularly in developing countries, to the point that they are the most important (and often unique) source of funds. Most analysis of CF assumes that they are an efficient instrument to allocate research funds, without realizing that other allocation mechanisms are available. The funding agency only has limited knowledge about the effectiveness of CF. This paper reviews the experience of the Mexican Produce Foundations with CF in the agriculture sector and discusses some benefits and limits of using CF as the main mechanism to fund research in a country with a relatively weak national innovation system, a relatively small research system, and some very innovative actors in the agricultural system.</abstract><note type="footnotes">We thank the reviewers for their comments, which have enriched this paper, which is part of the research Project ‘Improving knowledge management in the agricultural system of innovation’, funded by CONACYT-SAGARPA Mexico.</note><note type="author-notes">Alexandre O Vera-Cruz (corresponding author)</note><relatedItem type="host"><titleInfo><title>Science and Public Policy</title></titleInfo><titleInfo type="abbreviated"><title>sci public policy</title></titleInfo><genre type="journal">journal</genre><identifier type="ISSN">0302-3427</identifier><identifier type="eISSN">1471-5430</identifier><identifier type="PublisherID">spp</identifier><identifier type="PublisherID-hwp">spp</identifier><part><date>2008</date><detail type="volume"><caption>vol.</caption><number>35</number></detail><detail type="issue"><caption>no.</caption><number>7</number></detail><extent unit="pages"><start>501</start><end>513</end></extent></part></relatedItem><identifier type="istex">91613AA4BAD322410B4199889A76F457F1107091</identifier><identifier type="DOI">10.3152/030234208X345943</identifier><accessCondition type="use and reproduction" contentType="copyright">© Beech Tree Publishing 2008</accessCondition><recordInfo><recordContentSource>OUP</recordContentSource></recordInfo></mods></metadata><serie></serie></istex></record>Pour manipuler ce document sous Unix (Dilib)
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