Funding research excellence: research group size, critical mass & performance
…rt demonstrates conclusively that quality is a driver of scale and not vice-versa. Based on an analysis of RAE2008, it is clear that there are small and medium-sized units that perform as well as, and often better than, the largest units. It is also clear that growing these units would not necessarily show further improvement in quality. Our report also demonstrates why there is no significant correlation between productivity and research unit siz…