Advancing the Science of Science Funding Workshop.

A workshop on Advancing the Science of Science Funding took place July 19-20 in Cambridge, supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Research Associate Paula Stephan of Georgia State University and Reinhilde Veugelers of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Henry Sauermann, European School of Management and Technology and NBER; Chiara Franzoni, Politecnico di Milano; and Kourosh Shafi, University of Florida, "Crowdfunding Scientific Research" (NBER Working Paper No. 24402)

* Charles Ayoubi and Fabiana Visentin, EPFL, and Michele Pezzoni, Universite Nice, "The Important Thing Is Not to Win, It Is to Take Part: What if Scientists Benefit from Participating in Research Grant Competitions?"

* Misha Teplitskiy, Harvard University; Eva C. Guinan, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; and Karim Lakhani, Harvard University and NBER, "Social...