National Overview on Scientific Culture: France. Unpublished report prepared for the PLACES Open Project
Résumé
France has traditionally been a science and technology-oriented country. Nevertheless, gross domestic expenditure on R&D was only 2.26% of French Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2010. This represents a slight increase compared to the previous year, after several years of slow decrease. This proportion is above the Eurozone average of 2.06% but it is well below the Lisbon target of 3% 1. Research is under the charge of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research (http://www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/). Over the past few years, the public research system has undergone deep organisational changes. A programmatic law on research was passed in 2006 2 and in that framework, a High Council for Research and Technology was set up (http://www.hcst.fr/). A number of other counselling bodies for establishing research policy exist in France, including an Academy of Science and an Academy of Technology. Indeed, according to a recent report of the "Cour des Comptes", the control body for all French public institutions 3 , there are too many.
Domaines
Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie
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