This year the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Federal Germany's unique arrangement for the funding of independent research, enters on an unprecedented programme of structural reforms. Its sixty-year evolution may well provide object lessons for other European governments.
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HOARE, M. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft: A Model for “Small Science”?. Nature 237, 206–209 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/237206a0
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