<div dir="ltr"><b><font color="#ff0000">Anyone under the impression that universities are the dominant suppliers to government of commissioned research, advice, and knowledge, think again.</font></b> Open data on government spending shows the relative dominance of other suppliers and mediators of knowledge to government – not least the private sector and think tanks. Simon Bastow presents some preliminary government-wide data.<div>
<br><a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/03/20/open-data-government-commissioned-research/">http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/03/20/open-data-government-commissioned-research/</a></div>
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