WHO RECEIVES RESEARCH EQUIPMENT? INSTITUTIONAL CONCENTRATION OF STATE FUNDING FOR LABORATORY EQUIPMENT IN UZBEKISTAN (2018–2025)

This thesis examines how state funding for laboratory equipment was distributed among scientific institutions in Uzbekistan in 2018–2025. Using the register of 509 purchase items worth UZS 342,259.2 million financed by the Fund for Financing Science and Supporting Innovation for 43 institutions, it calculates the Herfindahl–Hirschman index, concentration ratios and the Gini coefficient. No single institution dominates (HHI = 402.3), but resources are unevenly distributed: the ten largest recipients received 51.7% of funds, and the Gini coefficient is 0.468. The largest recipients are not consistently the most productive users of equipment, which supports transparent, results-based allocation and shared access to expensive instruments.