Termin:
26.01.2006
European Science
A Modern Interpretation of Basic and Applied Research
European research as a collective enterprise has entered a dynamic period of evolution and change. In part this is a consequence of the rapid advances in the enabling technologies that facilitate so called "modern" science; the nature and greater pluridiscipinary demands of the research questions that science is seeking to address; in the advances in scientific knowledge and communication and also through the a clear shift in the nature of the research process itself.
Overlaid upon these changes are a range of external demands that, while not new, are now significant influences and that are now exerting new directions on what traditionally could be categorised in terms of basic and applied research. These drivers include: the need to maximise outputs through greater collective approaches to research; the growth of political accountability for public expenditure on science and research; the massive increase in the impact of the social dimension on science and the research process, and the expectation that science is a common good, that has to deliver measurable and societal benefits.
Within Europe, the continuing growth of research that is funded through the European Union is having measurable effects upon the structuring of the research community. The role of research at Community level and the advent of the European Research Area and the potential of the European Research Council will bring into sharp focus the nature of research.
It is therefore timely to re-visit the concepts of research and the research process, in the context of this new landscape.
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