Impact of Funding and Resource Control on Research Productivity in Nigerian Universities

The need to increase research productivity in Nigeria, is attracting the interest of academic scholars in recent times. Hence, this paper examines the impact of funding and resource control on research productivity in Nigerian Universities. Four hypotheses were formulated to guide the study based on the parameters of funding and research control namely Government grants/subvention, institutional self financing, and international aids. The data collected was thereafter analyzed with the use of frequency count and percentage, chi -square statistics and analysis of variance (ANO VA). The findings from the study revealed that there was a significant impact of Government grant/subvention on the volume of research output (X 2 =14.85;P<0.041). There was also a significant impact of institutional self financing and international aid on the number of research output, withX2 = 10.9;P<0.041, X2 =11.0;P<0.041respectively. It was also found that the extent to which funding parameters increase research productivity is largely dependent on the level of control of financial, human and material resources within a given university. Based on the findings made, the study recommended amongst other things, that Government should make frank effort to increase funding of universities. Also university management team should create resource control department that would be saddled with the responsibility of ensuring judicious use and accountability of university resources.