Not so fast with fast funding
Not so fast with fast funding
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快速融资的速度没那么快
DOI：
10.1080/08989621.2022.2129016
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发表时间：
2022
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通讯作者：
Rubin, Hannah
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作者：
Holmes, Abigail;Rubin, Hannah
在COVID-19大流行之后，许多人对科学资助的分配方式越来越不满。传统的拨款资助过程被认为是扼杀了研究人员的创造力，除了官僚主义，缓慢和效率低下。因此，越来越多的人呼吁将“快速资助”--快速、非官僚的拨款申请--作为科学资助的新标准。尽管快速赠款实施的这种筹资方法作为一种流行病应对战略取得了成功，但我们认为，大规模采用这种方法会付出沉重的代价，特别是在透明度和公平方面，而且所谓的好处--提高创造力和效率--不太可能实现。虽然传统的资助机制肯定不是完美的，但科学界在采用快速资助作为资助新标准之前应该三思而后行。
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many have become increasingly dissatisfied with how science funding is distributed. Traditional grant funding processes are seen as stifling the creativity of researchers, in addition to being bureaucratic, slow, and inefficient. Consequently, there have been increasing popular calls to make “fast funding” – fast, unbureaucratic grant applications – a new standard for scientific funding. Though this approach to funding, implemented by Fast Grants, has been successful as a pandemic response strategy, we believe there are serious costs to its wide-scale adoption, particularly for transparency and equity, and that the purported benefits – increased creativity and efficiency – are unlikely to materialize. While traditional funding mechanisms are certainly not perfect, scientific communities should think twice before adopting fast funding as a new standard for funding.