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Europe's research system must change

Luke Georghiou1

  1. Luke Georghiou is in the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Manchester, M15 6PB, UK. He also chairs the European Commission's ERA Rationales Expert Group.

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Science funding in the European Union needs to be revised to better serve economic, social and environmental goals, Luke Georghiou argues.

For researchers in Europe, the Framework Programmes have become a familiar funding source for projects and mobility. They account, however, for only about 5% of total public-research money1.