Virtues and limits of competitive funds to finance research and innovation: the case of Mexican agriculture

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Vera-Cruz, Alexandre O. Dutrénit, Gabriela Ekboir, Javier Martínez, Griselda Torres-Vargas, Arturo
Copyright Year	2008
Description	Competitive funds (CF) have become a preferred mechanism to allocate research funding, particularly in developing countries, to the point that they are the most important (and often unique) source of funds. Most analysis of CF assumes that they are an efficient instrument to allocate research funds, without realizing that other allocation mechanisms are available. The funding agency only has limited knowledge about the effectiveness of CF. This paper reviews the experience of the Mexican Produce Foundations with CF in the agriculture sector and discusses some benefits and limits of using CF as the main mechanism to fund research in a country with a relatively weak national innovation system, a relatively small research system, and some very innovative actors in the agricultural system.
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Ending Page	513
Page Count	13
Starting Page	501
ISSN	03023427
e-ISSN	14715430
DOI	10.3152/030234208x345943
Journal	Science and Public Policy
Issue Number	7
Volume Number	35
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2008-08-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Agricultural Economics Competitive Funds Innovation Agriculture Research Funding Allocate Research
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Public Administration Geography, Planning and Development Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law