Scoop has an Ethical Paywall
Europe’s big picture research funding backs individual
Europe’s big picture research funding backs
individual, not institution
By Peter Kerr for sticK
(sticK - 14 Feb. 2012 ) New Zealand’s newly morphing science & innovation policy will have to be kiwi-centric.
It is not geographically, economically or culturally feasible to wholesale adopt what’s worked in other countries and jury-rig it for us.
This is one reason to be wary when overseas experts and delegations, or NZ visits to such countries such as Israel, Denmark or Singapore declare ‘this is the way we should do it’.
However, a recent visit by the President of the European Research Council (ERC) will give Steven Joyce some food for thought
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