Grants and funding data
Public and research funding flows are transparent and mineable. This guide covers grants and funding data and how to source it.
Why funding data matters
Knowing who funds what reveals opportunity, competition and innovation trends. Grants and funding data supports funding strategy, research and economic analysis.
The data landscape
- Grants and awards: amounts and purposes.
- Recipients: organisations and projects.
- Programmes: funding schemes.
- Outcomes: results where available.
Common use cases
Funding and bid strategy, research and innovation analysis, competitor and partner mapping, and policy.
Sourcing considerations
EU and national funding portals (such as CORDIS for EU research) publish much data, increasingly open. Entity matching of recipients is central, and definitions vary across programmes.
Delivery and governance
Most use cases use batches. Some recipient data is personal, so care applies. Provenance matters for analysis.
In a managed model
A managed partner can consolidate grants and funding data across programmes with recipient matching.
Open and mineable
Funding flows reveal opportunity, competition and innovation trends. EU and national portals (such as CORDIS for EU research) publish much open data, and entity matching of recipients is the central task to make it usable.
Privacy and provenance
Some recipient data is personal, so care applies, and provenance matters for funding strategy, research and economic analysis.
- Funding flows reveal opportunity, competition and trends.
- Combine grants, recipients, programmes and outcomes.
- EU and national portals publish much open data.
- Recipient entity matching is central.
Sources & further reading
- EU CORDIS and funding portals.
- National research and funding agencies.
- data.europa.eu: funding datasets.
- EUR-Lex: Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR).
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