Funding the universities.

The Funding of Michigan Universities

This comparison of state funding, while useful, is conceptually flawed, in that it promotes the assumption that all programs and thereby all students cost the same. A more interesting comparison is to look at state funding as a percent of total revenue. In Michigan this ranges from a high of 51% at Wayne State University to a low of 28% at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. Removing resear...

Comparative Analysis of the Public Funding for Greek Universities: An Ordinal DEA/MCDM Approach

This study performs a comparative analysis of the 21 Greek Universities in terms of their public funding, awarded for covering their operating expenditure. First it introduces a DEA/MCDM model that allocates the fund into four expenditure factors in the most favorable way for each university. Then, it presents a common, consensual assessment model to reallocate the amounts, remaining in the sam...

Funding from the Crowd: an Internet-Based crowdfunding Platform to Support Business Set-UPS from Universities

This research-in-progress paper presents a research project that aims at developing, piloting and evaluating a crowdfunding platform to support financing for start-ups emerging from university. Currently, universities' own financial resources to support setting up businesses from universities are limited. Universities' business foundation consultancy can often only intermediate between entrepre...

U.K. universities. 'Darwinian' funding and the demise of physics and chemistry.

Funding decisions

Funding decision is one of the financial strategic decisions of a corporation. There are also two other finan-cial strategic decisions that a corporation faces, the investment and the dividend decision. This paper de-scribes briefly the investment and the dividend decision, although its main focus is on funding decision. In de-scribing the funding decision the researchers will first explain the...