The effectiveness of Japanese public funding to generate emerging topics in life science and medicine.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the effectiveness of public funds to generate emerging topics will assist policy makers in promoting innovation. In the present study, we aim to clarify the effectiveness of grants to generate emerging topics in life sciences and medicine since 1991 with regard to Japanese researcher productivity and grants from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. To clarify how large grant amounts and which categories are more effective in generating emerging topics from both the PI and investment perspectives, we analyzed awarded PI publications containing emerging keywords (EKs; the elements of emerging topics) before and after funding. Our results demonstrated that, in terms of grant amounts, while PIs tended to generate more EKs with larger grants, the most effective investme

SUBMITTER: Ohniwa RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10434904 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature