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Is bigger better?
Author(s) -
van Helden Paul
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.1038/embor.2010.71
Subject(s) - focus (optics) , political science , engineering ethics , public relations , data science , computer science , engineering , physics , optics
To close the gap between research and development, a number of funding organizations focus their efforts on large, translations research projects rather than small research teams and individual scientists. Yet, as Paul van Helden argues, if the support for small, investigator‐driven research decreases, there will soon be a dearth of novel discoveries for large research groups to explore.