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Science 16 December 2005:
Vol. 310. no. 5755, pp. 1772 - 1773
DOI: 10.1126/science.1117855
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Policy Forum

RESEARCH FUNDING:
Science Foundations: A Novelty in Russian Science

Irina Dezhina and Loren R. Graham

Science foundations, a new development in Russian science, are described in this Policy Forum. Their mode of operation is dramatically different from the old Soviet method of financing science. Because they were largely copied from foreign experience and because they coexist with older "Soviet" methods of financing and administering science, they are unique institutions and are still controversial in Russia. The Russian disputes about these foundations have inherent interest for American and other foreign scientists and science administrators.

I. Dezhina is a leading researcher at the Institute for the Economy in Transition, Gazetny per., 5, Moscow 125993, Russia; e-mail: degina{at}iet.ru. L. R. Graham is a professor of History of Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; e-mail: lrg{at}mit.edu

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