As HESA comments when introducing this item, the same concern applies in Canadian research finding as well. " the excellence trap: the effect that arises when the majority of research is funded through a project-based model in which many projects require co-funding. Such requirements mean that the more successful a university is in securing competitive funding, the less room it has to invest in the long-term development of excellence." Martin Nilsson Jacobi argues, "society is not best served by allocating resources in ways that are too narrowly targeted and too short-term. Academic freedom is not only a fundamental principle underpinning democratic values; it is also the most effective means of maximising the value that academia delivers to society." Governments are able to enter into longer term contracts and infrastructure agreements with companies; I see no reason they can't do so with universities and consortia.
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