4.2. Limitations
This was a cross-sectional evaluation that did not account for the repeated nature of submitting applications for funding. Future analyses will account for repeated time-to-submission and/or getting awarded funding and the intensity of submission/awards, i.e., multiple submissions by the same ESI. Other conceivably impacting factors on the likelihood of submitting an application for funding and/or getting awarded funding, such as the ESI’s background discipline, pre-existing self-established readiness and within-institution mentoring and supporting incentivizing environments, were not included.