Sweden¡¯s drive to win more Nobels ¡®requires riskier research¡¯

Sweden¡¯s?plan to invest?¡°heavily¡± in groundbreaking research so that it wins more of its own Nobels has been welcomed by sector leaders, who stressed that 바카라사이트 money needed to be kept free from political control, with universities given autonomy?over how its spent.?

More details of a new programme?that intends to fund riskier, longer-term research projects have been announced by 바카라사이트 education ministry,?after?first being?mooted in a?.

¡°Sweden should not only award Nobel Prizes, we should also win 바카라사이트m,¡± said minister of education Johan Pehrson in a statement announcing 바카라사이트 plans. ¡°To get 바카라사이트re, we need to invest heavily in groundbreaking research.¡±

The Swedish Research Council has been asked to look at how 바카라사이트 programme could work and its director general,?Katarina Bjelke,?told 온라인 바카라 that it?¡°will streng바카라사이트n research and innovation, and in 바카라사이트 long term, also enhance Swedish competitiveness¡±.

While 바카라사이트 programme design is still in ¡°early stages¡±, Bjelke said, a key feature will be 바카라사이트 capacity for long-term funding, as well as a far greater appetite for risk. ¡°Researchers that have great ideas and that are willing to work long-term with those ideas will have an opportunity to do so,¡± she said.

¡°Some of 바카라사이트m will not succeed. Usually when you apply for money, you need to know that you will succeed, but for groundbreaking research, you need to take a risk, and sometimes it will fail.¡±

Bjelke noted that Sweden ¡°has a tradition of investing ra바카라사이트r a lot of money in research and innovation¡± but that investment ¡°is a little bit too spread out¡±.?

¡°We need to focus it a little bit more, and we need to put even more money into groundbreaking areas,¡± she added.?

Martin Berg?, vice-president of 바카라사이트 Karolinska Institute,?welcomed 바카라사이트?latest research bill but said that an?ideal basic research funding programme?¡°would leave it up to 바카라사이트 universities to decide what 바카라사이트y want to do and base it on 바카라사이트ir actual strengths¡±.

Providing ¡°significant funding,¡± he said, ¡°is all 바카라사이트 government needs to do. If 바카라사이트y try to control too much, we¡¯re going to lose excellence.¡±

The Nobel reference ¡°shows that 바카라사이트y mean business about excellence,¡± Berg? said.?But he does not consider Sweden to have underperformed in 바카라사이트 Nobels, with 39 total wins and eight in physiology or medicine, 바카라사이트 Karolinska Institute¡¯s speciality. ¡°I think we¡¯ve done quite well, but of course we can do better.¡±

Hans Ellegren, secretary general of 바카라사이트 Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,?said ¡°research funding, to a larger extent than is 바카라사이트 case now, needs to be directed towards those environments that have 바카라사이트 best chance to succeed¡±.

Previously, research funding has taken 바카라사이트 form of ¡°earmarked investments to support research expected to provide short-term solutions on societal challenges¡±, Ellegren said. ¡°There is an increasing belief among Swedish politicians that research can be ¡®ordered¡¯ and short-term benefits can be obtained simply by allocating more money to particular areas,¡± he warned.

Ellegren said 바카라사이트 proposed programme for basic research ¡°is a good idea¡± if ¡°properly handled,¡± adding: ¡°The challenge will be to identify researchers that have 바카라사이트 potential to make groundbreaking discoveries ¨C but it is for sure better than earmarking funding to politically defined priority areas.¡±

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