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据《自然》周刊最近报道,去年11月《自然》周刊和澳大利亚国立大学(ANU)共同召开了一次有亚太地区、欧洲、美国和加拿大等国的科学家与科学政策制定人参加的研讨会,其目的是在目前世界各国政府都在日益倾向于使其研究工作服务国家战略目标的情况下支持基础研究。在会上,新西兰皇家学会会长菲利帕·布莱克作了重要的发言,他以新西兰为例谈到战略规划对基础研究带来的损害。 1986年,为了帮助改善该国面临的经济困境,新西兰开始对其研究体制进行改革。原来以学科为基础的政府研究机构被改造成10个“王冠研究所”——它们实际上是服务于羊毛业或自然资源等生产部门和以赢利为目标的公司。其中有些研究所,比如提供法医服务的环境与科学研究所确实获得了大笔商业收益,但其他一些研究所的情况并不好,而最小的一个研究所却于1994年关闭。
According to a recent report by Nature Weekly, in November last year, Nature Weekly and the Australian National University (ANU) jointly held a seminar in which scientists and science-policy makers from countries in the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, the United States and Canada participated The aim is to support basic research in the light of the growing tendency of governments all over the world to make their research work serve the national strategic goals. At the meeting, Philippe Blake, president of the New Zealand Royal Society, made an important statement. He took New Zealand as an example to talk about the damage done by strategic planning to basic research. In 1986, to help improve the country's economic hardships, New Zealand began to reform its research system. The original disciplinary-based government research institute was transformed into ten “crown institutes” - which are in fact companies that serve the production sectors of wool or natural resources and profit-oriented businesses. Some of these institutes, such as the Institute of Environment and Science that provides forensic medicine, did indeed generate substantial commercial gains, but others were not doing well, with the youngest institution closed in 1994.