Spain poised to chop science spending

Cristina Jimenez

The Spanish government is poised to cut public funding for research and development by about 15 per cent in its 2010 budget, due to be published in the middle of December.

Spanish scientists fear that if the cut takes effect, confidence in the Spanish scientific system could be weakened, undermining efforts made over the past ten years to transform the country into a knowledge-based economy.

With the country in recession, an isolated reduction in the science budget would not be that worrying if Spain had a mature innovation system, says physiologist José López-Barneo, Director of the CIBERNED (Centro...

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