Working on a major grant proposal. Writing applications for major European grants has become a whole industry. Scholars and institutions are willing to pay big money to agencies and assessors and consultants and Tom Cruise in Magnolia—all in the hope of increasing their chances. Impossible to have the complete figures, of course, but my guess is that this drive makes public investment in research quite deficitary—efforts to compete end up costing more money than the budget allocated to successful proposals. I will go it alone, low cost.