The Relationship Between Financial Execution in R&D and Scientific Production

A huge amount of money is spent annually on Research and Development (R&D) and it has occupied an increasingly important place all over the world. Research and scientific production are inextricably linked, so analyzing one theme often involves analyzing the other. UMinho is a research university, so it is the case study of this paper. We intend to analyze if there is any relationship between the quantity and quality of scientific production and the financial execution of R&D. In addition, it is also intended to make a brief analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the financial execution of R&D projects. With this study, we concluded that a weak financial execution of funds destined for scientific production is not synonymous with weak scientific production. In other words, there’s no strong correlation between financial execution for scientific production and the quantity of this production. However, from a qualitative point of view, for the years taken into account, we can see that there is a strong negative correlation. Also, the pandemic had a very negative effect on the financial execution of the R&D projects. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.