I think due to global warming, all are suffering.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/11/economist-explains

 Dear Maria ,

you right. We should change our view to scientific research but our society is not agree.

Dear Maria ,my English is not good but I have much ideas about your questions.

I am very happy familiar you. I enjoy from your idea that explained.

wait for more your ideas,

Regards,

Abbas

Too little money is spent for independant research. A lot of money is spent in industry, because they expect commercial success, just watch pharma industry. But here the aim is development and promoting of own products.

Dear Abbas 

Keep on communicating with us. Use google translator, whatever you need to bring your thoughts will be more than welcome. Besides, the more you communicate, the more motivated you will be to improve your English skills.

Dear Maria,  life will go on exactly the same for me, and a few other RG members! Because we never had research funding.  Some kind friends on RG help me to get some papers.  I get some free papers from authors.  I read abstracts, and I'm thankful that I interpret everything correctly so far!

@Abbas,

no problem with english, we all produce typing errors in english and grammatical and syntactycal uncertainties.  Google translator is a very helpful tip of dear Vilemar.

I agree with Miranda, with or without funding life will go on the same..

Thank you all for your kind, extremely interesting remarks on this issue!

I am growing more and more accostumed to count on the warm company of your highly interesting remarks on different subjects, every evening, as I return from hard work, and I count on you as a big family, that keeps me going.

Yes, Miranda, I also supported all the expenses of my research, with the wages gained from my teaching activities and medical practice.(My University experimental lab is fully equiped,) I may prefer not to apply for grants because of the chronologic timing , as I believe that consciencious research should not have to adapt to the chronologic pressure of results.  But I thought I was the exception and that most scientific researchers earned monthly wages for their condition of researchers.

I spend more money on books, and paper and computer printing ink, than I do with housing and food expenses. But the joy of reading, communicating and researching is worth it all, and I would not give up, for financial concerns. (I know I wouldn't !)

Kind regards, Maria

Funding will assist researchers in conducting their researches. But if local funding stops, a researcher can go to the foreign funding. The problem if both types of funding stop. As dear Kamal said  that each research proposal should be studied carefully to make sure it is logical and necessary, before it can have a funding grant.

In Mexico, unfortunately we do not invest enough money in science and research, so I think that the situation would not be different

Funding is very important as without it, no development in the sector of science and technology will happen; But I strongly oppose the idea of irrational funding for an irrelevant scientific work, as in that case the whole amount of money will go into the drain and which in turn can lead to money misapplication.

Steps for scientific procedure of discoveries and inventions should have to be logical and economical enough yet should be directed towards a positive result!!!!! 

A halt  of financial support for academic research is possible because most of it is basic research. The academic scholars ought to change into applied research which gives novel useful products or solves  existing problems. This change is bound to get funding because high turnout & patents are expected from this sort of research. What will keep the flux of funding is also an establishment of a research council, in each country, composed of prominent scientists who will draw priority lists for researches support on the basis of their value & prospects. The council has to be solely scientific & highly objective in its decisions.

Dear Roland ! Can't stop laughing at your idea of a return to Middle Ages research...

(Hope N O T !!! - I 'd have to handwrite and illuminate so many pages of ideas...)

Mahfuz Judeh and Dr. Nizar Matar, thank you for bringing your note of optimistic hope to my «dark» question.

This is a good question, and I'm also thinking about it quite a lot. In my opinion, the answer is a BIG NO, science will never go out on the drain, humankind curiosity is much more important than money etc. Indeed, if government funding stops tomorrow, there will be lots of scientist that will be "deserting", however, imho, most remarkable discoveries in science came as a result of one's obsession about a particular problem/issue. Money are important, they drive engineering, but they do not drive the greatest ideas in science. At least, that's my opinion. You do science because you're passionate, otherwise you can do finance :) (nothing wrong about the latter, as the current models are still highly flawed imo).

When fund support ceases, it would naturally affect Academics and Research. Given that there are economies of scale in investment management, it makes sense for funding to be positively related to assets under management, determined by return performance. Even though there is little systematic evidence that past performance by investment managers ensures future performance, chase who generate high returns because they think the researchers and academics have “hot hands.”

http://www.kansascityfed.org/publicat/sympos/2005/pdf/rajan2005.pdf

Friends, I just sent a paper to some of you.  Research was done without funding.  The paper was recently published in ASEAN regional journal. Only 5 papers were published (mine from Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Indonesia).  

It tells a story of great collaboration on RG. Prof Ljubomir provided some great links; when 1 important abstract was wrongly dated, he got me the full paper, right year and volume numbers. Profs Ed and Zaal were my stats consultants. Behrouz also provided more good links that I will use in future papers. Others I can't mention are great encouragers. My gratitude to God and you my friends, miranda.

www.sainsab.org

Article Musical Mnemonics to Facilitate Learning of Protein Synthesi...

Thank you, Miranda !

Yes, I believe that the underrlying moto, beneath my above question is ... hope.

Hope for the future of academic research. As we progress, and with the positive «contradictory» impulse of «crisis», we'll soon have to review our approach to scientific work, improving quality and avoiding the redundance of quantity / money.

Also, enhancing the virtues of global interchange and support, as Miranda's success, imediately proves. (and this is a sign of hope ...)

Thank you!

Dear @Maria, your question is a bit scary, but very realistic one. Situation in my country speaks itself. My government gives 0,3% GDP for science!!! The projected and sustainable would be 3%! So, many of us do research without funding or with very limited funding. Research defiance and perseverance prevails!

My prognosis in terms of funding of science are pessimistic regarding the economic crisis that you have already mention it!

Thank you, Clifford Miller, for your valuable contribution. (as usual, you enrich the contents!)

I also strongly support the idea of spending money on some research duplicates. (From my own research, I  may need to find fundings, on some of the experiments I made with endometrium  because the results were not the expectable. I am trying hard to get older and more experienced, and mostly more confident, to manage to reproduce the same experiments, with the same materials and methods, and to be able to analyse the final results in a more confident and mature way. But the experiment won't be original, as the preliminary results have been published in my PhD thesis...(I may die of old age, waiting for scientific maturity to visit. me ! )

Thank U! Kind regards. Maria

I believe that every researcher, in her/his mind, should have plan A and plan B, just in cate research support has stopped.

Research support is very essential in researches, since it contributes to the continued growth in research capacity and maximizes the impact of that research through knowledge transfer and related activities.

Great positive idea! thank you, Mahfuz!!!

You are right, as usual.

Thanks. Best, Maria

“What if all Academic and Financial Funding suddenly stopped?” It may happen any day unless we the scientific researcher properly justify our activity to the society. Funding comes from two different sources, (i) from Government, (ii) from Industries. Industry spends money on research to get new products that attracts more business and therefore will not stop. The second category of funding comes from the tax payers that include even the poorest of the poor. This grant is made to improve the academic ambiance of the country. Research funded by this source need not be a product generator. However, this flexibility should not be misused, that is, cost performance justification should always be the aim. In research there is every possibility that a particular endeavor may fail but that possibility should never be used as a plea to spend without any responsibility that is every researcher and his/her project should always be accountable at least to the society.

Probably contracted research (sponsored) by companies not run out of money I think. However, there arises another problem. Whether and how reliable are the research commissioned (sponsored). Does client expectations do not affect the results of which are often heard. Research projects independent of the sponsors seem more reliable I think

« Now there is a certain race of painters who, having studied but little, must need take as their standard of beauty mere gold and azure, and these, with supreme conceit, declare that they will not give work for miserable payment, that they could do as well as any other if they were well paid. But ye foolish folks! Cannot such artists keep some good work and then say: this is a costly work and this more moderate and this is average work and show that they can work at all prices? »

LEONARDO DA VINCI - Notebooks 

Dear Stefen.

Of course I was thinking of all the inherent lab expenses that would be necessary for medical research. Nevertheless, every scholar needs free time from other jobs to analyse results and to publish the results of scientific research... And we do need wages to survive during those months. Don't we all?

Where would that money come out from? 

Maria,

Thanks for the wonderful question.

My very personal opinion on this subject is that fluctuations in the sources of government/private sector funding occurs continually and by subject area. Where does funding go will depend on the funding source and the current problem it is trying to solve. For example, Government will generally invest in problems faced by society in which:

• private sector has no interest or it is too costly to engage from a private financial source.
• Has a high impact across disciplines or sector

On the other hand private funding will generally be focused on advancing the current business objectives of the company and is profit driven.

In some areas the phenomenon that you mention is occurring or has occurred but there are other areas where funding still is available. It is just the nature of things to evolve.

Just a thought

Thank you, dear Arturo. 

I also felt it coming our way... What can we say. ? When there are people going through basic necessity urgent needs, as in my Country, with the neverending Economic crisis, wouldn't it be selfish on behalf of Scientists and Researchers to demand a raise in financial fundings for scientific research?

Example in India

The schools run by the Ashram were totally dependent on CRY for their funding. With CRY stopping the funds suddenly, this entire infrastructure will fall apart without alternate sources of funding. The Ashram has no corpus of its own either. In fact, the teachers have not been paid since long

http://www.ashanet.org/detroit/Projects/ssa/ssaintro.html

Dear Krishnan.

You leave me speachless !!!  (and I must admit this seldom happens...)

Dear Maria and Krishnan,

Don't give up hope!

While not at the level you describe, Puerto Rico is also going through an economic crisis. Local public schools had to close during this period of crisis.

There is much uncertainty today when Puerto Rico is negotiating with the Mainland US to see how can we get of the predicament we got ourselves into. A counter was put on the table today by Congress, so lets see how it goes.

Dear Maria, I have managed to do some good research without funding.  I have an office desktop that's been there from 2009 with a 1 gig ram.  And a BW printer that's shared by 33 persons. I have no funds to buy literature review.  But on RG, I have friends that helped me get all the literature I needed.  Please go to the comments on the paper.  See how I have acknowledged RG and friends on RG when I published this paper in collaboration with ENZO.  (So I got material things and friendship that money cannot buy through RG and my sincere friends on RG.)

Article Motivation and Achievement of Malaysian Students in Studying...

This is great, dear Miranda. Congratulations !

Unfortunately, some of us, as in anatomical and/or biological studies, need to purchase expensive material and products for our experiences. From my personal example, when I want to study the microvascular network of organs, through arterial injection of suitable plastic resins (Mercox) for Electronic Microscopy analysis, I have to import products that cost half of my monthly wages, per liter...

Apart from that, my University spends a lot of money to keep our lab functioning. We need two highly specialized technicians to keep the Microscope going and to keep and prepare the embalmed human bodies in high freezing chambers and to help with the chemical preparation of our experiences.. 

It is not at all easy. But we'll get there someday.

These microvascular studies may prove useful (someday ! ) for the improvement of new pathways for the earliest diagnosis and even for the treatment of cancer, and these results may leed the way to easier funding resourses.

I just received, through messaging system, a quite interesting approach to this question, from dear Saad.

Saad Alasfoor to you 7 minutes ago

For this reason, knowledge and scientific research centers should be one of the sources of the overall economy.

Additional comment I think it's hard to all of this suddenly disappears, but if a disaster and big coincidence as divine miracle occurred superhuman .

Research is very costly. Can't be pursued without funding in long run.

Economic problems are caused by the parasitical elements of society who produce nothing but the public blindly trusts them (crooked and corrupt group of  politicians, bankers, lawyers, stockbrokers, arms dealers, etc. who are all in bed with each other)with money and running the country .

Spending money on research and education creates highly skilled workforce who then  create jobs in manufacturing, medicine, agriculture and the research make more innovation. The reputation of the education system becomes famous and scholars from all over the world get attracted to these temples of learning (universities, colleges), thus attracting the best and brightest brains from around the world - they stay on and contribute to the economic growth of the country.

One example is when the USA was caught flat-footed and left behind in the Space Race by the Russians with the Sputnik in 1957. They poured money into research,  created new research centers, strengthened educational requirements for math and sciences, and opened the educational  institutions to admit the best and brightest students from around the world to study and contribute. Created millions of jobs and many of the  useful inventions we use today.

Then you have conservative governments cutting funding of universities/colleges because the educated people are "too liberal" in pointing out and exposing questionable government activities. Stupid like in "killing the goose which  lays golden eggs".

Great futuristic contribute by good friend Teymur:

Teymur Zulfugarzade to you 44 minutes ago

" The Company will cease to be civilized and begin to crumble due to the lack of evidence-based concepts and new goal-setting , requiring their practical implementation under the scientific supervision of the author . Create, for example, new drugs will be impossible and humanity will begin to die from the new virus mutations . Therefore, the termination of funding for science , especially fundamental , it is a question of survival of civilisation. "

Hmmm, funding should not be stopped ooo. I hope I am not too funny!!

All we can do is act funny,. dear Pelumi...

As I read our dear Teymur's thought again, I do agree and entirely respect his original idea. Our governments should read that too.  If financing for research stopped, our global health would be threatened, for sure.

And so would social development, architecture, engineering and every field of development would suffer.

Thank you for your thorough analysis, dear Mohan. 

Institutions are impediments in Individual research activities (Third party funding / other institutional grants)

There are instances even when the grant has been received by the institution, the authorities play hiccups and even impose customized new rules and see to that the researcher gets less than the obtained grant.

What if all Academic and Financial Funding suddenly stopped?

Think researchers will re-prioritize their research i.e.

Thank you, dear Krishnan, and dear Han.

You bring light to the question. Dear Han, the important thing that I might add to your analysis is point Nr. 5 : Never give up !!!

Dear Hero, you deserve your name !!!

Yes the main problem is with biological research. We do need expensive materials to perfom correctly...

But even for the Humanities, research demands the purchase of books and specialized journal articles...

There is no insurance against such bad situations. We should rethink Academia's funds and probably we should establish a sort of fund for such emergency situations.

Quite right, dear Ljubomir.

On the other hand, what puzzles me most, in regards to scholarships and grants is the essencial demand for good results in short timing... This made me not want external fundings for my PhD research, because I thought that I needed my own personal timing to mature my concepts and ideas, (and my own self), before presenting my results. Eliminating time pressure stress and any bias on results, became great benefit for the final outcome of my concepts. This, of course, is my personal experience. But others might benefit a lot from financial help to their research.

There are several main lines of thought about this, and it has to do with something more that funding. It has to do with the mindset.

Many great scientific achievements have been done in garages. We are sometimes attached to the concept of 'hardware' - that is difficult to do, difficult to manufacture, and we don't have the skills to do it. It's a skill that perished in light of the pressure to 'produce results'. I still grind my mirrors, build my lasers, do spectrographs at home using scraps and stuff that I recycle from the garbage people dump away. I always ask my neighbours if, by some chance, they are putting away some old stuff, if I may take a look at it first, and be responsible to dispose of what isn't salvaged. So, I do my own experiments at home. I got those skills. So, when bad comes to worse, I know that a 'beautifully crafted machine' for which you pay a fortune is just that - a machine. So, you have the expertise to DIY your solution to a problem. Cost? Pennies.

Let me give you an interesting example about funding. If, in a street, each person who lives there is responsible of cleaning the stretch of road in front of his/her house, there wouldn't be need so many payed man-hours to clean a place. If you do composting, then you don't even need to overburden the garbage disposal system with the leafs. If you recycle, you get more for less. 

This is the Atittude. And it is the main ruling body behind how a system works. Be it public or private, what matters is the atittude. For instance, why do we always shy away from 'negative results' or 'experimental failures'? They are Science too, and important also. They give a measure of the reproducibility of a given result. It also shows that Science is also dependent upon a certain amount of art and talent. And we cover it up with that tarp, because in that way, quantity becomes quality.

So, this 'under-the-tarp' attitude leads to many things, but essentially, to cut corners. How do you cut corners? By buying 'black boxes' that spit out results. By focusing on the results itself, without questioning HOW we got there. To oversimplify the system. And what do you need for that? Money. A big sum of money. And who gives the money is driven by that thing I mentioned before - attitude - which swings both ways. 

One quick way to see this question about atittude is to look at the 'farm system' of a University. All the equipments of a laboratory belong to the university. However, once they fall under the auspices of a given group, how often do you have problems getting a silly measurement done? Again, atittude. The established system is self-defeating, because competition doesn't arise from quality, but from quantity. And sometimes, that competition has quite a lot of antrophomorphic characteristics.

So, private or public isn't the issue here. It's the attitude that matters.

Just my 0.02 cents.

Many people have given very insightful answers. So I will keep it brief. If the funding suddenly stops, then a lot of talented researchers who are poor or unable to fund themselves can't continue their research. So their talent will be wasted. Srinivasa Ramanujan, the great Indian mathematician who lived a very short life managed to do great work during his six to seven years of research. He is one of the finest mathematicians the world has ever produced. Now we are only beginning to understand what this great man has done. All this was possible when he got the funding from  Trinity College, Cambridge. He could not have done this without the funding because he was very poor to fund his research.

Brilliant example, dear Santosh. Thank you !

Here's a bit of what I found on this extraordinary short biography...

http://www.famousscientists.org/srinivasa-ramanujan/

Surely a good example to follow, that demonstrates how reputation and fame or fortune  have no place when it comes to building good solid honest scientists...

Thank you, dearly

Dear All,

The science tracks in the world mostly are directed and motivated by funds or the agents who have money. If the capital wants to have insight on a subject, it gathers the most competent and finest scientist in the world and provide all means of support. This mechanism can be observed in most of the contemporary achievements in all fields of science. In this context, funding is very important aspect not only in terms of gathering and motivating correct science persons in a particular project but also  motivating children to strive for becoming scientist in the future. As it can be seen here, funding feeds the different loops, the first is about the near and the second is about the far future.

Regards.

Just received, through messaging system:

Prashanth Gururaj Malur to you5 hours ago

There would neither be development in the academic and research.....

The Decline of Academic Research and the Rise of Startups

"I’ll start off with this. I am not in academia and do not have a PhD. I am an engineer and scientist who turned into an entrepreneur with a background in academic and industry research. My job is to work with organizations in research. I started a company to build a product that will change the way science is done and turn a profit. I started it with my co-founder because I cared about science and wanted to see organizations succeed among the myriad of operational issues they encounter in their labs on a daily basis. I find it exciting to see products that change the lives of people and how they work, in whatever industry they are in, which is why I have find companies so fascinating. But are all organizations in science and research approaching innovation the same way? To that effect, I would like to have a frank conversation on the following topic; are academics producing the kind of results that are producing products that government, industry and the general population demand for the betterment of everyday life?...

Academics and Industry have a complicated relationship. Industry values the academic world for its achievements and technological know-how which has prompted many successful partnerships. However, industry has been looking for financial returns more than ever. This is why there has been a reduction of partnerships over the past 5 years. Academics (to be honest), have a real reservation of working with industry experts. Within university walls, academics are able to maintain their independence and to some extent, set their own expectations and their own time table. As long as you have tenure and funding, you really have nothing to worry about. When adding a fiduciary responsibility to the mix where they become responsible to a corporation for their results, many academics have expressed the sentiment of enslavement or as one professor put it at a recent university meeting I attended, “we are afraid of being gagged.” I have two words for people who think this way; Wake up. If academics take money of any kind, they should be held accountable. They, like research scientists at private companies, should be responsible for the results they bring."

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/decline-academic-research-rise-startups-charles-beyrouthy?trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A577811291460367404115%2CVSRPtargetId%3A8019533232761232759%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary&trk=vsrp_influencer_content_res_name

Dear Maria Bettencourt Pires,

your questions is very timely because of a huge Research-Practice gap.

Now I try to answer your questions:

Question 1. "What if all Academic and Financial Funding suddenly stopped?"

Nothing to do because not be worse, and perhaps even be better. In my understanding, the vast majority of researches are just exercises for the development of intelligence and do not have any practical applications.

Question 2. "Would modern Science, as we know it go down the drain?"

In my opinion, modern Science is in deep crisis because of a huge Research-Practice gap. Therefore, I fully admit that modern Science may go down the drain.

Question 3. "Are we spending too much money on materials and methods for scientific research?"

In my view, we should spend too much money on materials and methods only for "development-oriented" scientific research in order to reduce Research-Practice gap.

Question 4. "Should we revise our approach to scientific research and methods, as we face a severe Economic crisis at the beginning of the 21st. century?"

Yes, we should essentielly revise our approach to scientific research and methods. In the 21st. century, the main goal should become the DEVELOPMENT in order to be usefull for society.

Greetings everyone,

Though I am not in the sciences, this general question covers the full breadth of higher education worldwide. It would seem that an establishment of "denied education" has been going on in many sectors of the global community, and the powers-that-be want a populace who is ignorant enough to swallow their absurd dictates. A simple look at the presidential election in the USA proves this point: where xenophobia and paranoia are the basic premises of the argument, fruitful discussion disappears from the dialogue.

This is not a new phenomenon. Public funding of education has been under attack from several directions. Religious zealots are against scientific answers that will contradict the dictums of "faith"; Entrenched industries fight against the introduction of anything "new and improved" which may negatively impact the value of their antiquated products; and most of all, MONEY has become the rationale for more waste and abuse than ever before. If "leaders" choose to deny access to education, health care, and livable wages, the working-class becomes little more than a slave-class too worried about day-to-day survival than esoteric issues regarding why they are starving, unable to afford adequate anything, and dying too early.

At this point, it does not matter if you are in North Korea, North Hollywood, South Sudan, or South San Francisco. If you do not have sufficient education to move forward, the funding of higher educational facilities and programs becomes moot. If you are fighting just to keep a roof over your head and food in your stomach, you really do not care what is happening to the institutions which are not seen as directly benefiting your struggle to survive.

Yes, we must have an endless supply of funding for every level of education, and I fully endorse this as a fundamental human necessity. However, many of these same institutions have whored themselves out to the detriment of humanity, and those who are forced to conduct flawed studies in order to augment the production of substandard [anything], have succumbed to the current absurdity. At present I have no answer, other than to ask all personnel involved in any level of educational enterprise to stand up against the insanity. Either we teach and preach the truth, or we are living an embarrassing and unsustainable lie...

Respectfully,

Gary William Hallford

San Francisco State University

Southern New Hampshire University

good response@Gary

Yes, I feel most lucky with my questions. They give rise to a collection of great answers. Thank you both !

What if all Academic and Financial Funding suddenly stopped?

That would mean the massacre of science and society as well :-))

indeed...

I wonder what should become of the assassin who leads that massacre...

;)

Only advancement into diversity of taste in industrialization will get suffer drastically, on the other hand the minimum limit range (survival kit) of necessary advancement in knowledge will sustain involuntarily as sometimes knowledge is independent from Seeking volunteer efforts.

Regards,

Implications of inequitable funding of research are obvious. It is same with education! Funding should never be stopped, but emerged for existing competition in research arena.

"Research arena" - it is the properly wild naming :-)

Yes, Research arena ...

a slaughter place... (only the strongest survive)

And that is precisely the problem - the strongest might not be the best :-)

As Dear Miranda Yeoh mentioned about the hardships of research funding as a biggest problem of researchers, its just a generalized statement and cant fit on all as well. Lets try to see that what trends are effecting the fundings in general and how to conserve it. I am not going further into the research policies, their effects and results of any countries.

The trend for research fundings and resources is very much different in developed and under developed countries......how ever the intellect approach toward subject might can be find near to each other at theoretical level of researchers at Globe. 

From many dacads the researchers and scientists in underdeveloped countries are following some strange and object-able patterns in terms of delivery.

1) They normally obtain degrees from developed countries.

2) Then return back to home countries and either form a group r to become part of some strong group.

3) If such practice remain for educational purposes and research as all around the world then it might be good and deliverable...........but such groups get enters to power politics and lobbyist with no clear cut ethics and rules. the only purposes is to get the fundings and remain the subject matter and science toward their set design of delivery; and that design is for the purpose of linger-on kind of approach just to remain at seat with fundings. same trend get flourish when such groups of researchers and scientist get into organizational seats.

4) Thatswhy in under developed countries the complain of none delivering, wastage of fundings, unsuccessful projects, not up to the mark research, low quality research, etc etc are always at seen.

5) The bright student either get compelled to be a part of such groups or leave the countries toward developed countries, and there they deliver which they can deliver for the progress of their own home lands.

6) Only those institutions are delivering in underdeveloped countries where some strict monitoring and evaluation (not on paper but practically) is the demand from the government and funding agencies, and most of them are related to defense departments.

7) In last 1-2 dacads due to the provision of free approach toward Internet, email, websites, social media and first hand direct approach with knowledge and current trends; the functional influences of such groups get down and now they are more tending toward Link Base Fundings..........as the people outside dont know anything except papers and publications............

8) Still there is no trend of publicly private owned research organization in Asia etc.

9) The recent development in research can be seen in IT, that is because of individuals efforts, due to free approach toward learning and the delivering in shape of website, program, app etc still there is no development of an independent computer language, some remarkable hardware, implementation of trend changing software etc 

10) The Next major influencing factor is Industry-Academia relationships....when universities in undeveloped countries will not deliver remarkably to industry then how industry will invest on universities, how ever very few example are there where rather than making power political groups researchers and scientist do focus on industry and they are getting valuable cooperation for their departments and research. Its a very beneficial trend but still the academia is with the thought that research is only the entity of research organization and academia organizations. That ideological approach limiting the funding, integration and best utilization matrix for delivery.

11) The next significant factor is Strict Information and Thought Control process during research. information control might get justified but when contribution of thought will follow the controlled environment then from where the delivery will come?

12) The next is discriminations, personal likeness and dis-likeness, absence of practical approach on implementation of research protocols, none assimilating nature of different human resources, and many none-ethical communicational problems etc

So all the time all the research problems are not due to lack of funding, and to generate funding the delivery of beneficial results are essential and for it free-will approach and practical right to human resources are VITAL.

Any comparison based on past few dacads research and delivery in two groups (developed & under developed) along distribution of fundings can testify the claim.

In all above scenario there is a need of First Hand Direct Approach toward Human Resources and Funding based Matrix under such Model which ensure Delivery of Beneficial Results along Establishment of Sustainable Ethics into Researchers & Scientists, and thats the best conservation of resources, energies and fundings.

Regards,

Thank you, dear Raja, for a beautiful contribute to the present question.

Indeed, "all the research problems are not due to lack of funding, and to generate funding the delivery of beneficial results are essential and for it free-will approach and practical right to human resources are VITAL." ...

What if all Academic and Financial Funding suddenly stopped? - ResearchGate. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_if_all_Academic_and_Financial_Funding_suddenly_stopped#57764a5b217e201b5e4e98c8 [accessed Jul 1, 2016].

Stop the career and open a Pizzeria !

Dear @Alessandro, in that case, I would be a professional fisherman.

I can wash staircases !

Fund stoppages can also be overcome or impact ameliorated through

Financial funding is the very basic end for the all the activities from scientific & technological development ,medical research ,electronic equipment areas & such other contributory field.

For financial funding for whatever the areas may choose , no movement of cash flow ,budgetary control & timely evaluation to monitor the fund are essential requisite to control the monitoring fund .

Financial fund certainly correlates with the consumer of the society . Economical uncertainty may mar the fortune of quite good areas & in this line financial fund may affect the situation adversely .

For financial fund to be periodical scrutinize & to be observed that the fund can move as per the budgetary planned.

We have view the fund flow of every aspects & in academic system early method have been totally changed for financing  academic program .School & Tuition fees at the early time now have become the death past .Academic has become a business for earning & fund donation has become the criteria for the academic areas .

The suggestion & practice for financial fund has been touched as participant may not have to pass the dismal situation .

This is my personal opinion 

Dear Maria et al.,

I shall cook for you all.

Best regards.

Thanks, dear Hanno ! Ljubomir grants the fgish, I can wash dishes... We'll soon be millionaires, and Science won't stop.

Alessandro may lend a hand.

You solved all our problems! God bless you !!!

What a wonderfull team!

Join me too, into your team, I can also cook well.

We start to downfall towards ancient periods.

Come on dear Krishnan, come on, you are really wellcome.

I can smell the scents of curry pizza with sauerkrout !!!

No dear Maria,

you know, I dont like sauerkraut. THere are better receipts.

I was pulling your leg, obviously. Don't worry, I'm certain that neither Krishnan, nor Ljubomir, not even I like fish curry pizza...

I don't like washing dishes, either, but it might be useful, if financial fundings insist on failing to support our researches.

I dislike downfalling to ancient periods, as Manoj put so well...

Enough jokes. Young scientists need financial and psychological help. And this is the job of the elder generation. Cooked or not, help them!

Dear Maria,

Do you need an approximate and theoretical or a practical or specific answer? Let us see your specific question? “Are we spending too much money on materials and methods for scientific research?”

This is relative. Some of us have excellent conditions and can spend a lot for such things. However many others work in the conditions of the darkest feudalism without the necessary research facilities and avoid the empty university library which has neither books nor journals. Regarding the second situation, where there has been no funding the elimination of support occurred long time ago, say 15-20 years ago. One of my professors told me about 35 years ago: we have no research facilities, we are fishing in the garbage and carry out labour (handwork) requiring jobs. This is our option.

Fortunately, the situations and power relationships change continually. There are always reasons to be exited. Last week I dissected and prepared beetle alimentary canals during two days for enzyme assessment. These guts had to be kept at least under – 20 ˚C. The only laboratory assistant of our department decided to clean the fridge containing my samples and moved them in another without knowing the freezing performance of that freezer.  Thus, the possible activity loss will be my risk.  

Dear Maria,

The assassin you mentioned must be a politician and s/he will be decorated for such terrorisms as stopping academic and research funds.  This is the pseudo-philosophy in some countries… 

My hands for "frico di patate". Give a look here

https://realitaliandish.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/frico-with-potatoes-onions-and-cheese-frico-con-patate-e-cipolla/

 and try by yourself. The secret: use dry potatoes and a 6 - 9 months old cheese. 

Dear @Alessandro, nice dish! Fine Venezia recepie!