Jürg Wyttenbach <ju...@datamart.ch> wrote: > Not a single experienced researcher will spend more than a few seconds to > read such outraging nonsense as writing progress reports every 3 months for > e.g. 25k $ funding is just a bad joke... > I have given several researchers funding, with no strings attached. I definitely want a progress report every 3 months. It is not reasonable to take someone's money and then not tell them what you are doing with it. A short but substantive report every three months is entirely reasonable.
==> Get maximal information for a minimum of money. > When I contribute money to an experiment with no strings attached (no intellectual property for me), then I stipulate the results be published in full, on a timely basis. The researcher would be free to file for a patent before publishing, but it must be published. No philanthropist wants to pay for research that remains secret. There is no point. So not only would I get "maximal information" but so would anyone else in the world. This is entirely reasonable. Do you expect people to give money unconditionally? What would be the point of funding research with no progress reports that will remain secret? That is not science. You need to look at this from the point of view of the person giving the money.
