Ross Parker » public life http://www.rossparker.com my personal homepage Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:32:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Corporate funding of think tanks http://www.rossparker.com/2009/07/05/corporate-funding-of-think-tanks/ http://www.rossparker.com/2009/07/05/corporate-funding-of-think-tanks/#comments Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:32:59 +0000 Ross http://www.rossparker.com/?p=272 John Blundell, the departing head of the Institute of Economic Affairs writes in today’s Sunday Times of his quest to keep the IEA ‘clean’ through strict donor rules, including:

  • No corporate money tied to projects either explicitly or implicitly
  • No taxpayer funds
  • No FTSE 100 company to give more than 2% of budget [I assume he mean's IEA's budget]
  • No corporate sector (eg oil, banking, pharmaceuticals) to give more than 5% [of IEA budget, I assume]

He mentions how he had received offers of tax-efficient funding in return for his extension of scholarships/bursaries to the donor’s progeny (he refused: “Sorry, no deal”). He also thinks that politicians have become more guarded in their dealings with think tanks since 1997.

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