research funding

Lab budget source

Research funding is money allocated to support scientific, academic, or scholarly investigation.

It typically comes from government agencies, private foundations, corporations, or universities: She spent months writing grant proposals to secure research funding.

The term often appears in discussions of science policy and academic careers, where securing funding is essential to conducting studies and maintaining laboratories.

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Payment for instruction

salary · operational costs · administrative expenses · infrastructure spending · facilities maintenance

availability/presence

research fundingdefunding

Eliminating allocated money

funding cuts · disinvestment · austerity · budget shortfall · budget cuts

knowledge activity direction

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Resources devoted to schooling

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