Science funding is borked: Part II

Previously I had argued in “Science funding is borked” that we should be giving out many more and smaller grants, similar to the 500 startups approach. 

Now in a new paper published in PLOS ONE and reported in Times Higher Education, it seems that this argument is starting to gain some data-driven support. 

Here’s the PLOS ONE paper Big Science vs. Little Science: How Scientific Impact Scales with Funding