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The question which I wish to pose is: how efficiently are our scientists and institutes working? Should we not direct our main efforts at improving the working conditions of the existing institutes and of their research workers so as to improve their productivity, rather than towards further growth of the Academy? Perhaps with the same expenditure in physical terms we may be able to gain more in this way. One may enquire by what factor the productivity of our scientists can be increased. It is of course impossible to give a precise answer, but I think there is still very great scope.
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Kapitza, P.L. (1980). Effectiveness of Scientific Work. In: Experiment, Theory, Practice. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 46. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8977-1_17
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