Department of Radiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
Account Res. 2009 Jul;16(4):232-3. doi: 10.1080/08989620903065590.
NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) offers Discovery Grants averaging Can$30,000 to about 70% of its applicants. If the total budget for these grants were evenly divided amongst the 10,000 people qualified to apply, the average grant size would be Can$41,000. The additional costs of writing and reviewing grant applications in our previous analysis only serve to accentuate the loss of funds that could otherwise be spent on the research itself. Baseline grants for the early stages of research, to all qualified researchers, would significantly enhance innovation of Canadian scientists.
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会（NSERC）向大约 70%的申请者提供平均金额为 3 万加元的发现资助。如果这些资助的总预算在有资格申请的 10000 人中平均分配，那么平均资助金额将为 4.1 万加元。我们之前的分析中，申请撰写和评审的额外成本只是突出了资金的损失，而这些资金本来可以用于研究本身。向所有合格的研究人员提供研究早期的基准资助，将极大地提高加拿大科学家的创新能力。
