French research

French research split

Life scientists are rapidly waking up to the threat to their future in the face of France's announcement of a break-up of the CNRS — Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France's major research organisation — amid a raft of other concerns. The winter of 2003–04 was one of discontent for French scientists, who demonstrated in masses against government policies that they felt were forcin...

French public research--saved?

A system for monitoring French scientific research

The introduction of France’s Constitutional Bylaw on Budget Acts (LOLF) in 2006 and its concept of performance-based management implies a profound reengineering of the relationship between the central government and the autonomous agencies in charge of implementing policy. In this paper, we examine the case of French scientific research policy, which is carried out via a network of 160 universi...

Geography of Innovations and Geography of Research: the French Experience

In the literature, innovation is the outcome of spatial interactions between the innovative structure of a district and its knowledge structure: innovations tend to concentrate in the locations where they find knowledge that is necessary for the development of innovating activities. Thus, proximity increases the chance of developing new ideas (Feldman, 1999). Starting from this theoretical hypo...

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