Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP)
QT:”The responses of the 6,081 faculty respondents show that the administrative burden on faculty is very significant: 42% of the time spent by an average PI on a federally funded research project was reported to be expended on administrative tasks related to that project rather than on research. This administrative burden does not stem from one or a few exceptionally onerous tasks, but instead reflects the cumulative effect of the many administrative burdens imposed by different funding agencies, different offices within agencies, auditing and accrediting agencies, and academic institutions.” http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/fdp/index.htm
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20563268