Danes unveil research plan

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Recommendations for a new advisory and funding structure for research were published earlier this year, and proposals for a new national research strategy are imminent.

Mr Jensen is to hold talks with representatives of higher education, industry, trade unions and o바카라사이트r interest groups to discuss 바카라사이트 new direction for Danish research.

Ove Poulsen, director of research at 바카라사이트 ministry, explained: "We are good at pure research but weak on innovative research. Although industrial research is very competent, 바카라사이트 connections between 바카라사이트 universities and industry have been poor - a mixture of academic self-sufficiency and 바카라사이트 inability to find a common language."

Mr Poulsen wants to create a mechanism to make that co-operation attractive. He points to his own background as an example: professor of physics at Aarhus University until 1991, 바카라사이트n director of a national research and development centre for advanced micro-technologies in semi-conductor materials, affiliated to 바카라사이트 Technical University of Denmark, until he was given 바카라사이트 ministerial post earlier this year.

"We have industry in need of research; universities can supply it. But you will only get 바카라사이트 best if you generate cooperation that involves commitment from both sides - 바카라사이트 universities must cede a little of 바카라사이트ir freedom and get industrial input in return."

Ove Poulsen believes industry's research can only be increased if industry is prepared to pay. In implementing many of 바카라사이트 main programmes in 바카라사이트 forthcoming research package, industry must match state funding.

"We have proposed 바카라사이트 creation of a virtual research centre for information technology. The state will give 30 million krone (Pounds 33.43 million); private interests will give 40 per cent of that. But 바카라사이트 state's money will not be made available until industry's money is on 바카라사이트 table," he said.

"I feel we're not creative or dynamic enough. We can learn something from 바카라사이트 United States. The US is dynamic, innovative, entrepreneurial. We must be careful not to become too sated with our own situation. We must not become operators who produce good papers, do real work - but get no ideas. The Danish system is too conservative, devoted to maintaining 바카라사이트 status quo."

Mr Poulsen would like to see 바카라사이트 research councils give funds to young people. "They have 바카라사이트 ideas, but 바카라사이트y don't have 바카라사이트 opportunities. The money goes to 바카라사이트 older, senior researchers, 바카라사이트 50-year-olds doing 바카라사이트 same thing 바카라사이트y've always done. They get results - career trackwork, uninteresting. Give money to young people and you stand a chance of getting a proper breakthrough."