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Nature 392, 211 (19 March 1998) | doi:10.1038/32476
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A culture whose time is past
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France's scientific and technological structures have no choice but to undergo a revolution. The government must encourage a climate of competitiveness and risk-taking required to ensure a strong scientific future.
Forgetting the economic disasters that were Concorde and Superphénix, even the most ardent free marketeer must concede that France's model of industrial policy, anchored in a system of meticulous and comprehensive state planning, has borne fruits. But the model has now outlived much of its usefulness.
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