Table 11.
Summary of operational dimension of governance of health research for funding institutions
Functions of governance | Salient dimension |
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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 |