Comments on: Funding the Good Guys http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/2009/12/09/funding-the-good-guys/ Genetics: Studying the Source Code of Nature Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:50:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: James http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/2009/12/09/funding-the-good-guys/comment-page-1/#comment-4235 James Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:11:57 +0000 http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/?p=1071#comment-4235 The reorganization will involve the expense of paying for a new layer of bureaucracy at CGIAR itself, so there definitely is a cost involved. The test will be if the increases donations and higher productivity of researchers will be enough to justify those costs. Since CGIAR's members voted for the change, hopefully they believed it would, on the balance, be a net positive financially, but we won't know for sure until the new system has been up an running for at least a year. The reorganization will involve the expense of paying for a new layer of bureaucracy at CGIAR itself, so there definitely is a cost involved. The test will be if the increases donations and higher productivity of researchers will be enough to justify those costs.

Since CGIAR’s members voted for the change, hopefully they believed it would, on the balance, be a net positive financially, but we won’t know for sure until the new system has been up an running for at least a year.

]]> By: Matt http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/2009/12/09/funding-the-good-guys/comment-page-1/#comment-4233 Matt Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:34:12 +0000 http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/?p=1071#comment-4233 Nice post. Any idea if they're losing ground with this move? or is it just an efficiency reorganization? Nice post. Any idea if they’re losing ground with this move? or is it just an efficiency reorganization?

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