TY - JOUR KW - Artificial intelligence KW - Budgets KW - Decision making KW - Institutional funding of science KW - peer review KW - Research assessment KW - Research funding KW - Research grants AU - Peter Kolarz AB - The competitive research funding system is at a breaking point. Innovations to address ongoing problems are needed on a grander scale than ever before, but even this will not suffice to fix a struggling system. What we need is a whole system transformation. BT - PLOS Biology DA - Apr 6, 2026 DO - 10.1371/journal.pbio.3003754 IS - 4 LA - en N2 - The competitive research funding system is at a breaking point. Innovations to address ongoing problems are needed on a grander scale than ever before, but even this will not suffice to fix a struggling system. What we need is a whole system transformation. PY - 0 EP - e3003754 T2 - PLOS Biology TI - The time has come for big changes to improve research funding UR - https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003754 VL - 24 Y2 - 2026-04-14 SN - 1545-7885 ER -