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Re:Paying Professors: Inside Google’s Academic Influence Cam... by rayiner on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @07:00PM (#14748797)
That's not true. Grant funding is a heavily bureaucratic process, with committees scoring proposals on matrices. The bureaucrats don't really care about your previous results (they have no personal investment), and even if they did, they don't really have a mechanism to hold them against you.
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Re:Paying Professors: Inside Google’s Academic Influence Cam... by arebop on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @07:17PM (#14748880)
Is it common for these committees to award grants to profs who (happen to) have a track record using grant funds to open doughnut shops rather than to research the topics mentioned in their previously-funded grant proposals?
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Re:Paying Professors: Inside Google’s Academic Influence Cam... by Spooky23 on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @08:09PM (#14749158)
The government doesn't give you spending money for you to do with as you please. There's a whole web of strings attached.

If you open a donut shop with it, you're probably commuting an act of fraud.

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Re:Paying Professors: Inside Google’s Academic Influence Cam... by protomyth on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @08:04PM (#14749135)
From the grants I've dealt with, you better not in anyway spend the money (that includes line items for particular purposes) in a way inconsistent with the grant. Both the government and non-profits will blackball you so fast its amazing. The government might even have a talk with you.

If you absolutely have to change the budget (does happen), you better have permission.

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