IMO, the Concorde justifications are transparent rationalizations—if you want research, buy research. It’d be pretty odd if you could buy more research by not buying research but commercial products… In any case, I mention Concorde because it’s such a famous example and because a bunch of papers call it the Concorde effect.
It really depends on your view of academics. If you think that if you hand them a pile of money they just invest it into playing status games with each other, giving them a clear measurable outcome to provides feedback around which they have to structure their research could be helpful.
It really depends on your view of academics. If you think that if you hand them a pile of money they just invest it into playing status games with each other, giving them a clear measurable outcome to provides feedback around which they have to structure their research could be helpful.