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It is related to a wider, two-year study of innovation in the NHS being conducted by RAND Europe and the University of Manchester, but represents a discrete stream of work.In this report, we introduce the background and context for the SBRI Healthcare study (Chapter 1), describe the interview and survey methods used (Chapter 2), and discuss the main results (Chapter 3) and conclusions (Chapter 4). The accompanying appendices provide further details on the methods and results from the interviews and surveys conducted. RAND Europe is a not-for-profit policy research organisation that helps to improve policy and decisionmaking in the public interest, through research and analysis. RAND Europe's clients include European governments, institutions, NGOs and firms with a need for rigorous, independent, multidisciplinary analysis. This document has been peer reviewed in accordance with RAND Europe's quality assurance standards and as such can be portrayed as a RAND Europe document.

Once these organisations were selected, we conducted a rapid evidence review to identify the following key descriptive features: the different types of research funding organisations and organisational models; the defining characteristics of different funding organisations and models; the main ways they deliver their objectives; how decisions about funding are made; and any available evidence for the effectiveness of the organisational model relative to organisational success (success being measured by various indicators of 18 We identified these journals through a team discussion and consultation with some of the academics in our study and our senior QA reviewer. The journals were: