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| Sep 11, 2020 at 14:20 | comment | added | user151413 | @MarkMeckes Fair enough. I was not saying that this wasn't a good question - as I say myself above, there are outstanding theoretical researchers who work more or less without grants. | |
| Sep 11, 2020 at 13:40 | comment | added | Mark Meckes | @user151413 While you might have meant the question rhetorically, it has been raised in all earnestness on this site before: academia.stackexchange.com/q/107227/101 | |
| Sep 11, 2020 at 8:20 | comment | added | user151413 | @Allure It was a rhetoric question, given that the OP asked about economic incentives but then was happy with an answer which didn't explain any economic incentives (it is linked to economic incentives, but this is already true for the topic of the question itself). This aside, once you are tenured there is no need to get grants in many places (though of course it is often frowned upon), and in theoretical research, funding is not needed to do research. There are quite a few outstanding mathematicians or theoretical physicists which work by themselves and rarely take on students. | |
| Sep 10, 2020 at 21:39 | comment | added | Allure | @user151413 "If you don’t get funding, you can’t do research. If you don’t get funding, you definitely won’t get promoted. In my university, if you don’t get funding you won’t pass your probationary period to get a lectureship, and at many places if you don’t keep getting funding, you are in danger of losing your job." source | |
| Sep 10, 2020 at 17:29 | comment | added | user151413 | But point 1 is only an issue if you have a grant. What is the economic incentive for having a grant? | |
| Sep 10, 2020 at 13:07 | comment | added | Guldam Kwak | point 1 seems answer my questions. Thanks ! | |
| Sep 10, 2020 at 8:46 | comment | added | Mark Meckes | To expand on point 3: A history of successfully mentoring graduate students may increase the advisor's chances of getting funding and/or promotions in the future. (Also note that it is not universal for advisors' names to appear on their students' papers, particularly in the fields mentioned by the OP, as discussed in many places on this site.) | |
| Sep 10, 2020 at 6:18 | history | answered | Allure | CC BY-SA 4.0 |