Science|Business
Policy Analysis: Investment, Policy
Published: 23 May 2012
Conduct more breakthrough research in Europe

Gunnar Öquist

Scientific breakthroughs arise when excellent researchers are given the freedom to explore beyond the bounds of formulaic R&D programmes. A Howard Hughes-type grant scheme for Europe would promote this, says Gunnar Öquist


Gunnar Öquist, former Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Image: KVA

Fostering more ground-breaking research in Europe must be put at the top of the political agenda in Brussels. The reasons are clear - on the one hand good science is essential to increase the economic competitiveness of Europe. But even more critically, the current over-exploitation of resources around the globe is not sustainable.

Today, we do not have the technical or social means to run our economies on a sustainable footing, but I am pretty sure that...

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Related subjects: European Research Council, Sweden, Horizon 2020

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