In article <am7mcl$p45$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Arthur E. Sowers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And, usually, the PI has to get _permission_ to spend money on > certain things, thus the PI is often not very _principal_ but quite > subordinate in terms of authority to expend money off his own grant. > > One exception is SBIR grants which, instead of to large institutions, can > go to a small company (as long as it can be legitamated) with a little as > one employee. Hint, hint, hint. If you're hinting that institutional employees form small companies on the side in order to get freer access to their grant money, my institution at least looks very skeptically at such arrangements. -- David Eppstein UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/ . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
