Table 4 Model of research payback
From: Evaluation of a 'virtual' approach to commissioning health research
Categories of Payback (amended from [1]) |
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a. Knowledge |
b. Research benefits |
- better targeting of future research |
- development of research skills, personnel and overall capacity |
- critical capability to utilise appropriately existing research |
c. Political and administrative benefits |
- improved information bases on which to take political and executive decisions |
- other political benefits from undertaking research |
d. Health and social service sector benefits |
- cost reduction in delivery of existing services |
- qualitative improvements in the process of service delivery |
- increased effectiveness of services e.g. increased health or social welfare |
- equity e.g. improved allocation of resources at an area level, better targeting and accessibility |
e. Broader economic benefits |
- wider economic benefits from commercial exploitation of innovations arising from R&D |
- economic benefits from a healthy workforce and reduction in working days lost |