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.
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.
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.
What distinguishes the Koch Institute from other basic cancer research organizations?
for grants to, or contracts for basic research with, an organization described in subparagraph (A).
(e) generally, substituting "Credit allowable with respect to certain payments to qualified organizations for basic research" for "Credit available with respect to certain basic research by colleges, universities, and certain research organizations" in heading, and restating and expanding provisions of former pars.
Some of these organizations fund basic research that is eventually shown to have forensic science applications.
As I explained in Harvard Business Review, there are four basic ways an organization can approach innovation: Basic research, breakthrough innovation, sustaining innovation and disruptive innovation.
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.
