You know those catchy bits about “we’re investing in research and development” that have found their way into every government budget speech since the invention of budget speeches?
A harder to quantify metric would be to ask who is deciding what research gets funded and why?
A lot of that data is available (here's the complete database of 60,000+ CIHR funding decisions: https://webapps.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/decisions/p/main.html#sort=namesort%20asc&start=0&rows=20).
It's just a matter of figuring out a useful way to categorize it all. I've made some efforts in that direction: https://www.theaudit.ca/p/do-government-research-grants-support
A harder to quantify metric would be to ask who is deciding what research gets funded and why?
A lot of that data is available (here's the complete database of 60,000+ CIHR funding decisions: https://webapps.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/decisions/p/main.html#sort=namesort%20asc&start=0&rows=20).
It's just a matter of figuring out a useful way to categorize it all. I've made some efforts in that direction: https://www.theaudit.ca/p/do-government-research-grants-support