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Who Receives Research Equipment? Institutional Concentration of State Funding for Laboratory Equipment in Uzbekistan (2018–2025)

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: This thesis examines how state funding for laboratory equipment was distributed among scientific institutions in Uzbekistan in 2018–2025. Using the register of 509 purchase items worth UZS 342,259.2 million financed by the Fund for Financing Science and Supporting Innovation for 43 institutions, it calculates the Herfindahl–Hirschman index, concentration ratios and the Gini coefficient. No single institution dominates (HHI = 402.3), but resources are unevenly distributed: the ten largest recipients received 51.7% of funds, and the Gini coefficient is 0.468. The largest recipients are not consistently the most productive users of equipment, which supports transparent, results-based allocation and shared access to expensive instruments.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.24080279

Author: Tairjon Kabashev

Institutions: Tashkent State University of Economics, Renmin University of China

Language: English

Topic: Research, Science, and Academia

Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7225634938

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