How can the knowledge embodied in the grants-supported research enterprise be usefully classified by type (explicit, tacit, embedded, knowledge-in-action)?

How, or in what way, can the interplay among these types be modeled? By what means can one type be transformed to another (e.g., can tacit knowledge be made explicit)?

What role do organizational factors, such as trust and communities of practice, have in tacit knowledge sharing and management?

What semantic and ontological resources or tools are needed to integrate explicit knowledge across programs and disciplines?

How do the dynamics of critical knowledge-in-action processes affect the outcomes of grants-making decisions?

To what degree is participation in these processes necessary for developing the knowledge required by agency staff or investigators?

How does knowledge about grants making become embedded in organizational processes and cultures, and under what conditions and in what forms does embedded knowledge act either as valuable institutional memory or as an impediment to innovation?

To what degree is the unequal distribution of knowledge about grants making throughout the enterprise an impediment to the development of proposals or a source of unfairness in grants making?

What sorts of policy or procedural changes would reduce or eliminate these problems?