Table 1 Questions to interviewees drawn from the literature reviewed
From: Basic Blue Skies Research in the UK: Are we losing out?
Selection | Pressures on researchers to anticipate their goals in research applications | Whether a research application was necessary before 1970 | The impact of the peer review process on developments in research | Whether research before 1970 would be accepted with the current peer review system |
Funding | Priorities for funding | Changes in the funding environment within the UK | Ways to manage limited funding sources in the UK | Â |
Quality of research | Experience of cross disciplinary working | Interpretation of the term blue skies research | Financial support to be allocated to blue skies research | Â |
Process of discovery | The commercialisation of research activity | The ingredients in a researcher and the environment needed for discovery | Personal experience of the environment that influenced the process of discovery | Â |