Germany's premier basic research organization, the Max Planck Society, released a long-awaited blueprint for change during its annual meeting this week, recommending that the society's nearly 3000 scientists embrace more interdisciplinary and international projects in a range of new research priorities.
On 7 June, a few of those victims finally got an explicit apology from the head of the country's premier basic research organization, the Max Planck Society, on behalf of its forerunner, the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (KWG), some of whose scientists were implicated in the nefarious research.
Even so, the budgets for the nation's two main basic research organizations--the Max Planck Society and the DFG granting agency--are still slated to grow next year by the same 5% proposed by the previous German government.
The leaders of Germany's top basic research organizations gathered in Berlin on 14 October to dedicate a monument to the victims of Nazi-era bresearchearch, just days after a historical commission released a preliminary report on biomedical science abuses during the Hitler era.
At least 26 institutes in the Czech Academy of Sciences, 37 university faculties and nine state-funded research organizations are conducting basic research in various areas of nanoscience, according to CzechInvest, the country's investment and business development agency.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), a U.S. medical research organization supporting basic biomedical research and education, funds international scientific research through a competitive grants program.
In contrast, Microsoft does not have free-standing operating units devoted to particular regions or types of products -- it has one headquarters, one set of sales and marketing subsidiaries around the world, one sales and marketing force, one product support organization, one basic research unit, one finance department, etc.
The Max Planck Society (MPG), Germany's flagship organization for basic research, will improve its support for junior scientists and do away with a stipend system used mostly for foreign Ph.D. students and postdocs that many had decried as unfair because it doesn't include basic social security benefits.
Some of these organizations fund basic research that is eventually shown to have forensic science applications.
In 1912 he founded the Research Corporation, a nonprofit organization that supports basic research in colleges and universities, and he assigned his precipitator patents to the corporation as an endowment.
Some research organizations in China are carrying out basic research and conceptual design now.
