Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Science 9 March 2001:
Vol. 291. no. 5510, pp. 1889 - 1890
DOI: 10.1126/science.291.5510.1889
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

News Focus

PORTUGAL:
Money and Charisma Help the Science Tide Come In

Richard Stone

LISBON--New funds from the central government and the European Union, in the hands of an activist science minister, are helping revive a once-proud scientific tradition after decades of neglect under António de Oliveira Salazar, who saw intellectuals as a threat to his iron-fisted rule and expelled dozens of professors. Public research spending as a percentage of gross domestic product has nearly tripled since 1986, to 0.63%--still low compared with the research superpowers, but higher than that of Ireland, Italy, and Spain. And even though E.U. funding for capacity-building projects will dry up in 2006, government officials feel that the country is finally on the right track.

Read the Full Text

To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)