SYMPTOMS OF FINANCING HIGHER EDUCATION R and D

Abstract

After reading articles and essays on the international and domestic pursuits and tendencies that determine the financing of higher education based on the experiences of different research units, the authors thought it is worth examining whether the changes that occurred at the national research institutes will direct the R and D of Hungarian higher education toward the international tendencies or there is a danger of the consolidation of mechanisms and organisational structures that emerged along the crisis management strategies developed during the transformation period. This article tries to find the answer through analysing the financing of R and D. The authors relied mainly on the empirical experiences of 42 case studies elaborated with OMFB support at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. The authors show the most important financial sources for R and D at TUB, and they present the channels of transfers and leakage in the system of financing R and D.