... diverse group of possible funding sources including national or regional public funding either directly through government or funding agencies, national private funding from dierent sources ... National funding agencies play an important role in providing external project-based funding for universities and, through their condi-tions and requirements, have a signicant inuence 4 Financially ... project funding. While it is clear that there are benets to be derived from the increased move towards external funding, university research cannot be fully depend-ent on such external funding. ...