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The European Research Council: where are we now?
Author(s) -
Gan Frank
Publication year - 2003
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/sj.embor.embor832
Subject(s) - political science , research council , european union , international trade , business , government (linguistics) , philosophy , linguistics
At first glance, the concept is simple: to establish a new entity in Europe that will focus on basic research. There is a large consensus of opinion that European science needs such attention and that Europe needs to deliver a higher quality of basic research than is achieved at present. But even this simple concept of improving the quality of research has given rise to much discussion. Do we mean basic research in this context or investigator‐driven research? Is non‐basic research excluded? I think the …