Basic research - A new funding climate?

Science and Public Policy

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 66-75

  Skoie, Hans ^a  

^a Inst Studs Res and Higher Educ   (Norway)

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EID: 0001825580     PISSN: 03023427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/spp/23.2.66     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Derek de Solla Price, Little Science, Big Science (Columbia University Press, 1963).
2. Including the separate research council units on campus in some countries, for instance, the CNRS units in France.
3. It is common in the scientific community to complain about cutbacks while levelling off in growth rates is actually the case.
4. Stuart W Leslie, The Cold War and American Science (Columbia University Press, 1993).
5. Arie Rip, "The republic of science in the 1990s", Higher Education, 28, 1994, pages 3-23.
6. Lord Rothschild, An Inquiry into the Social Science Research Council (HMSO, London, Cmnd 8554, 1982).
7. The term 'strategic research' seems to have been coined as a prelude to the Rothschild debate in the UK in the early 70s.
8. In 1977 Sweden undertook an interesting reform of the research council system which spelled out in great length the basic rationale for such councils. It Is now proposed to integrate these councils in an umbrella organisation (SOU, 1996, page 29).
9. "A foundation for the 21st century, a progressive framework for the National Science Foundation", Report of the National Science Board Commission on the Future of the National Science Foundation, 20 November 1992.
10. In some countries this has led to changing council names, inclusion of a separate engineering division, and so on.
11. The NIH in the USA is a major exception.
12. Germany and the Netherlands among others.
13. This point has recently been emphasised by the Commission in the EU.