Table 11.

Summary of operational dimension of governance of health research for funding institutions

Functions of governance	Salient dimension
Intelligence acquisition	• Top versus bottom influence of outsiders
	• Proactive versus reactive knowledge hunting
	• Presence versus scarcity of organisational learning procedures
Strategy formulation	• Research insider versus research outsider
	• Single health sector versus multiple sector inputs
Resourcing and instrumentation	• Providing support material for the entire research community versus restricting it to grantees
	• Providing open grant versus targeted grant
	• Pushing or not for linkages to healthcare benefits
	• Questioning or not competitiveness in a globalised research environment
Management of relationships	• Internal versus external partners
	• Customary versus recurrent partnerships
Accountability and performance	• Disclosure of process or results
	• Follow-up on diverging behaviour or not
	• Committee related information online or not