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Motivated research
Author(s) -
Danchin Antoine
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.2010.85
Subject(s) - epistemology , political science , mathematical economics , environmental ethics , computer science , philosophy , mathematics
While Europe is locked in the debate about basic versus applied research, Louis Pasteur solved the problem more than 100 years ago. Antoine Danchin comments on Pasteur's notion of ‘motivated research’ and how it leads both to new discoveries and to new applications.