Colleagues,
As reported in the Science|Business Network ... To date, G-20 governments have announced more than $200 billion in new innovation programmes to pull their economies out of recession. In a series of six articles, Science|Business correspondents will analyse in detail how this money will be spent. Future articles will look at China, the US, Germany, Australia and the European Union as a whole; this week, Fabrice Delaye considers the situation in France, which is using its stimulus plan to amplify research system reform...
... of the €26 billion stimulus plan adopted by the French government last winter ... The innovation side of the stimulus plan reveals a more subtle role for the French state in research policy ... It puts research and Higher Education infrastructures, as well as private spending in R&D, as priorities. These are receiving almost a fifth (€4.5 billion) of the stimulus money...
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