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The State of Research in Europe and in Italy: The Risks of Short-Sighted Decisions

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Research is facing declining funding rates everywhere, affecting the cultural and economic growth of some of major world powers. We looked at the choices on funding allocation made by the USA and by Europe, to compare priorities and analyze consequences. Also, within Europe, we focused on Italy and on its consistent brain-drain phenomenon, as an example of short-sighted research policies that appear to require not only the urgent infusion of monetary resources and the creation of new job opportunities, but also and especially a general change of cultural approach.

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Notes

  1. See http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/natlpatterns/.

  2. See http://www.rdmag.com/articles/2013/12/us-r-d-small-increase-2014.

  3. Source: Eurostat 2011.

  4. See http://irm.scienceonthenet.eu.

  5. Source: Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT), Italian National Institute of Statistics.

  6. Marino IR. Acceptance of peer review will free Italy’s research slaves, Nature, 453, 449, 22 May 2008.

  7. See http://www.cnrs.fr/index.php.

Abbreviations

APRE:

Agency for the Promotion of Research in Europe

CNR:

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

CNRS:

Comitè National de la Recherche Scientifique

ENEA:

Energia Nucleare ed Energie Alternative

EU:

European Union

EUR:

Euro

FDA:

Food and Drug Administration

7FP:

7th Framework Program of the European Commission

GDP:

Gross Domestic Product

H2020:

Horizon 2020

NIH:

National Institutes of Health

OECD:

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

R&D:

Research and Development

US:

United States

USD:

US Dollar

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  1. Department of Surgery, Jefferson Medical College, 1025 Walnut Street, College Building, Suite 605, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, USA

    Ignazio R. Marino

  2. Department of Biology, College of Science and Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Claudia Cirillo

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Marino, I.R., Cirillo, C. The State of Research in Europe and in Italy: The Risks of Short-Sighted Decisions. Dig Dis Sci 59, 2036–2039 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-014-3303-3

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