From: Priority-setting in health research in Iran: a qualitative study on barriers and facilitators
Facilitator | Facilitator and barrier | Barrier |
---|---|---|
Theme 1: Managerial factors | ||
 Meritocracy in management | Individual willingness | Rapid turnover of managers |
 Commitment of managers |  | Scarcity of knowledge about HRPS |
Theme 2: structural factors | ||
 Publicising HRPS results | Role of media | Centralised decision-making |
 Using an automated system |  | Integration of heath with medical education |
 |  | Lack of a national innovation system |
 |  | Stewardship – absence of a research map (research puzzles) |
 |  | Stewardship – inappropriate leadership of research |
 |  | Stewardship – lack of transparency in other sectors |
 |  | Stewardship – no standardisation |
 |  | Lack of evidence about research gaps |
 |  | No relation with industries |
Theme 3: Motivational factors | ||
 Considering intellectual property | Limiting research budgets to priorities | Inefficiency of faculties’ promotion criteria |
 |  | Narrow time limit for PS |
Theme 4: Process factors | ||
 Defining reliable PS criteria | PS approaches | Considering PS as a one-time activity |
 Alignment with high level rule |  | Generalisation |
 Stakeholders – ways of engagement |  | Ignoring appealing mechanisms |
 Stakeholders – end users |  | Lack of a efficacious evaluation system |
 Stakeholders – NGOs |  | Scientific autonomy |
 Stakeholders – funders |  |  |
 Stakeholders – policy-makers |  |  |
 Defining scope of PS |  |  |