It's a long way down the road, but if you're ever interested in funding university-based research (in the US):
Universities have something called an indirect rate. This is basically how they pay for things that a private company would build into the overall cost of the project. Things like administrative folks, and lights, and heat, and IT support for the internet, etc., because "direct costs" are only what applies directly to your project.
These are often 50%+, and tend to come as a shock to people, even when the total cost is well less than private research firms.
The thing that doesn't get talked about as much is if you're a funder, if you have somewhere on your site, the funding announcement, etc. that you're capping indirects at say, 15%, that it's much easier for researchers to convince university administration to use that lower rate (in that if you don't have it, we're SOL).
So if you do ever manage to head that direction, please do make sure to include something like that.
Universities have something called an indirect rate. This is basically how they pay for things that a private company would build into the overall cost of the project. Things like administrative folks, and lights, and heat, and IT support for the internet, etc., because "direct costs" are only what applies directly to your project.
These are often 50%+, and tend to come as a shock to people, even when the total cost is well less than private research firms.
The thing that doesn't get talked about as much is if you're a funder, if you have somewhere on your site, the funding announcement, etc. that you're capping indirects at say, 15%, that it's much easier for researchers to convince university administration to use that lower rate (in that if you don't have it, we're SOL).
So if you do ever manage to head that direction, please do make sure to include something like that.