Access
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
Opinion
Nature 394, 303 (23 July 1998) | doi:10.1038/28443
Open Innovation Challenges
- More Challenges
- Powered by:
nature jobs
Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Rice University
- Houston, Texas, USA
Research Scientist – Ecology of Phytoplankton and Primary Producers (Experimental Lakes Area)
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO)
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Potential weaknesses in unaccustomed generosity
Abstract
The large boost of funds for British science is an essential means to arrest its decline. Attention now needs to focus on ensuring these funds are distributed fairly.
There is, as the poet Samuel Butler pointed out, a natural reluctance to look a gift horse squarely in the mouth; but there are occasions when it can be prudent, if only to avoid nasty surprises later on. Such is the case with the extra funds that the British government has announced it is to make available for the support of research in universities and through the research councils over the next three years (see page 307).
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
