id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt WOS-000333323500005 Scott, J The Hub and the Spokes Foundations, Intermediary Organizations, Incentivist Reforms, and the Politics of Research Evidence 2014 .txt text/plain 197 6 32 Drawing from a 3-year (2011-2014) study of IOs, research utilization, and policymaking in the case of incentivist reforms, we find that foundations are uniquely situated in the reform landscape as a central actor, at the hub of intermediary activity as a funder of IOs, but also as a spoke in the wheel that helps to mobilize and, in many ways, direct the activities of the IOs. We discuss the implications of the role of foundations in research production, promotion, and utilization for research and policymaking. cache/WOS-000333323500005.txt txt/WOS-000333323500005.txt