A gender study of principal investigator lead public R&D centres and funding

To survive and grow public Research Development (R&D) centres need to raise competitive funds (Bazeley 1998 Bazeley, P. 1998. “Peer Review Panel Decisions in the Assessment of Australian Council Projects Grant Applications: What Counts a Highly Competitive Context?” Higher Education 35 (4): 435–452. doi:10.1023/A:1003118502318.[Crossref], [Web Science ®] , [Google Scholar]; Lee Om 1996 Lee, M., K. Om. 1996. “Different Factors Considered Project Selection at Public Private R&D Institutes.” Technovation 16 (6): 271–275.[Crossref], Muñoz 2007 Muñoz, E. 2007. “New Socio-Political Environment Dynamics European Systems”. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Grupo Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad (Unidad Políticas Comparadas), Working Paper: 02–20. Santamaría, Brage-Gil Modrego 2010 L., A. Brage-Gil, Modrego. 2010. “Public Financing Cooperative Projects: Credit Versus Subsidy Funding.” Policy 39 549–563. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2010.01.011.[Crossref], Scholar]). The factors that can influence capacity national teams within apply for obtain funding does not seem have been studied depth. purpose study is firstly, examine whether consistent set priorities defined by centre lead principal investigators secures more funding. Secondly, PI gender moderates effect PI’s on amount team obtains. Our focuses activities carried out Spanish areas Health Biomedicine. results found there were no differences relation acquisition which contrary findings other studies (Mayer Rathmann 2018 Mayer, S. J., J. M. Rathmann. 2018. “How Does Productivity Relate Gender? Analyzing Gender Differences Multiple Publication Dimensions.” Scientometrics 117 (3): 1663–1693. doi:10.1007/s11192-018-2933-1.[Crossref], Lerchenmueller Sorenson, Lerchenmueller, O. Sorenson. “The Gap Early Career Transitions Life Sciences.” 47 1007–1017. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2018.02.009.[Crossref],