The federal government is more likely to fund curiosity-driven basic research, while industry is more likely to support research that has a clearer eventual payoff.

Unprecedented cuts have researchers scrambling, but other sources can’t fill the gap.

The push to reduce spending on foundational research is shortsighted, Tesla A. Monson and Marianne F. Brasil write.

A consensus is forming in Washington that the federal government is not doing enough to help American innovation. New research suggests that federal underinvestment is contributing to sluggish ...

In our era of intense innovation-based global competition, policymakers increasingly look for demonstrable connections between public investment in research and tangible economic and security benefits ...

Pursue research on areas of the significant anticipated growth of funding and economically disruptive technologies. Currently funded research by the faculty members of the Electrical Engineering and ...

Nature Communications acknowledges that when assessing application-oriented manuscripts, the level of novelty will likely be below that typically observed in more fundamental work. Instead, the ...

The pandemic has rolled back decades of economic progress and wrought havoc on public finances. To build back better and fight climate change, sizable public investment needs to be sustainably ...

Applied research Applied research is aimed at gaining knowledge or understanding to determine the means by which a specific, recognized need may be met. In industry, applied research includes ...

The basic researcher is driven by curiosity and a desire to explore unknown territory. Basic research includes theoretical research and early-stage investigations in the laboratory or field. A ...

Please see the full solicitation for complete information about the funding opportunity. Below is a summary assembled by the Research & Innovation Office (RIO). DOE seeks applications that advance the ...