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The prizes and pitfalls of progress

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Pushes to globalize science must not threaten local innovations in developing countries, argues Lan Xue.

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  1. Lan Xue is in the School of Public Policy and Management, and the director of the China Institute for Science and Technology Policy, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. xuelan@tsinghua.edu.cn ,

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