BIOL 2000H Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Agriculture And Agri-Food Canada, Natural Sciences And Engineering Research Council, Environment And Climate Change Canada
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Sources of science funding government: funds allocated in annual budgets, usually distributed through agencies, sometimes directly allocated with legislation, focused on funding highest quality research. Some canadian government sources nserc, cihr (both are primarily peer-reviewed funding), environment canada, dept. Sources of science funding: government funds allocated into annual budgets, usually distributed through agencies, sometimes directly allocated with legislation, focused on funding highest quality research. Sources of science funding: industry funds spent as needed for r&d, large corporations have r&d divisions, focused on product innovation and development, usually no peer review, can be focused on specific projects. Sources of science funding: other funds collected through philanthropy, research connected to core principles, very specific research objectives and very narrow research projects, funds usually distributed after peer review. Determine a scientific approach: you need to figure out how hypotheses . Submit proposal rated by panel (mostly made of canadian researchers)