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Nature 392, 214 (19 March 1998) | doi:10.1038/32488

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Allègre seeks boost for young researchers

Declan Butler

Claude Allègre, the French minister for national education, research and technology, has told research agencies to come up with proposals within a month for increasing the independence of young researchers. He argues that the current system, under which funds are distributed to laboratories rather than individual teams, favours established researchers.