Zerstreute Förderantragslandschaft führt zu Fehlallokation von Ressourcen

Definition

Australian grantmakers report that up to 30% of applications they receive do not meet eligibility criteria, meaning that organisations often invest staff time in applications that are automatically ruled out.[2] For think tanks whose senior researchers spend 20–40 hours per major proposal, this results in significant sunk labour costs when applications are misaligned with funder priorities or guidelines. With an average fully loaded senior researcher cost of AUD 150–250 per hour in the Australian market (salary, on‑costs, overhead), each ineligible or clearly non‑competitive application can represent AUD 3,000–10,000 in wasted internal cost. If a think tank submits 5–10 such weak or misaligned proposals per year due to manual or ad‑hoc screening, the annual capacity loss is plausibly in the AUD 15,000–100,000 range. Automated tools that parse guidelines, match opportunities to past wins and flag misfits early could reclaim 20–40% of this effort.

Why This Matters

The Pitch: Think tanks in Australia 🇦🇺 waste AUD 10,000–30,000 pro Jahr an bezahlter Forschungszeit auf aussichtslose oder unzulässige Förderanträge. Automation of opportunity scanning, eligibility checks and bid/no‑bid decisions eliminates much of this dead‑loss capacity.

Affected Stakeholders

Research Director, Senior Research Fellows, Grant/Development Manager, Finance/Operations Manager

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