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Science 26 September 2008:
Vol. 321. no. 5897, pp. 1857 - 1860
DOI: 10.1126/science.321.5897.1857
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BUSINESS OFFICE FEATURE:
Focus on France: French Research In Transition

Michel Leroy, Laurent Passicousset and Julie Clayton

More funding, more autonomy and a new administrative system: over the past three years, French scientific research has undergone massive reforms. From the establishment of the National Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche, ANR) in February 2005 to new laws on research and university autonomy passed in April 2006 and August 2007, France is now on a road to modernization which aims both to simplify and rejuvenate what President Nicolas Sarkozy described last March as "an old moth-eaten system (un vieux statut mité)."




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