Table 11 Summary of operational dimension of governance of health research for funding institutions

Intelligence acquisition

• Top versus bottom influence of outsiders

• Proactive versus reactive knowledge hunting

• Presence versus scarcity of organisational learning procedures

Strategy formulation

• Research insider versus research outsider

• Single health sector versus multiple sector inputs

Resourcing and instrumentation

• Providing support material for the entire research community versus restricting it to grantees

• Providing open grant versus targeted grant

• Pushing or not for linkages to healthcare benefits

• Questioning or not competitiveness in a globalised research environment

Management of relationships

• Internal versus external partners

• Customary versus recurrent partnerships

Accountability and performance

• Disclosure of process or results

• Follow-up on diverging behaviour or not

• Committee related information online or not