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Many universities are adopting a more strategic approach to focussing their investment in research, as part of improving the research performance of the university and hence being able to compete more successfully as a world-class university. However, focussing research activity in universities necessarily means concentrating research resources (including not only funding, but also staffing and other forms of support and investment) on some areas of research, at the expense of others. Given that this concentration of resources will be as much about what is not being supported as it is about the areas that do receive support, it is important that the academic schools of the university are engaged in the decisions about this resource concentration.
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Marlin, C. (2011). World-Class Research Performance Through Research Focus and the Strategic Use of Research Resources. In: Liu, N.C., Wang, Q., Cheng, Y. (eds) Paths to a World-Class University. Global Perspectives on Higher Education, vol 23. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-355-6_10
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