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Opinion
Nature 396, 199 (19 November 1998) | doi:10.1038/24208
Open Innovation Challenges
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Abstract
The rules on sharing large-scale facilities are under pressure. Neither politicians nor scientists should ignore the role of self-interest. But respect must, where possible, still be maintained for universal values.
There is a troublesome conflict of principle bubbling beneath what might otherwise seem to be an innocuous issue: the rules of access to large and, increasingly, medium-sized, publicly funded research facilities. At stake is the question of whether access should be determined primarily by scientific merit, or by the interests of those who have sponsored the facility.
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