Research funding has become an important part of science yet we know little about how funding agencies, scientists, and university departments respond to changes in the funding system. The present study uses face-to-face interviews with a small sample of scientists, department chairs, and government officials to explore how scientists accommodate their work and careers to the funding environment. The results are organized into five themes: the role and prospects of scientific marginals, relations between principal investigators and their staffs, organizational consequences for universities, accommodations to scientific change, and quality of science. The paper closes with questions for policymakers.
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