Canada's crisis: can business rescue science?

Article Abstract:

Canada has cut funding to its science councils and is targeting business and venture capital as sources of financial support for university research. The National Centres of Excellence program has provided $440 million for research, but business is not a substitute for federal science funding.

Canada, Science and technology policy

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New politics in science

Article Abstract:

Researchers need to become more involved in the education of citizens and politicians about the importance of science. Science and technology spending is expect to be reduced 25% by 2002, and politicians increasingly attempt to reduce the intellectual independence of scientific research.

Political aspects, Science

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Science in the stationary phase

Article Abstract:

Researchers should adapt to diminished support for science like microbes respond to the stringencies of a stationary phase. Scientists must band together to ensure science's survival and use the media to educate the public about how essential basic science is to medicine.

Scientists, Public relations

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