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Nature 404, 689 (13 April 2000) | doi:10.1038/35008205
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Framework lives, but does it learn?
See associated Correspondence: Miller, Nature 406, 560 (August 2000)
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Abstract
As the European Commission starts to plan its next Framework research programme, flaws in the present one are emerging.
Basic science tests hypotheses, and applied science solves problems. A curious irony of the European Commission's multi-year Framework programmes for research is that they support applied research, but conduct themselves as a series of independent, hypothesis-driven social experiments.
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