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Nature 406, 13 (6 July 2000) | doi:10.1038/35017740

How can we build a 'knowledge economy' if research is handcuffed?

Jack A. Heinemann1

  1. Department of Plant and Microbial Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch , New Zealand

New Zealand has found a novel approach to the problems caused by the brain drain and by chronic underfunding for basic biological research1, 2. The government's solution is to make much biological research illegal instead of just prohibitively expensive (see page 8).