The phrase "scientific infrastructure" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the system by which scientific research is conducted, including equipment, resources, and networks. For example, "The university is investing in its scientific infrastructure to ensure the highest quality of research."
It has the best graduate programmes, the best scientific infrastructure, and the capital markets to exploit it.
Humankind will never become a spacefaring civilization until we commit to building a permanent commercial and scientific infrastructure in space.
It might sound like the next Large Hadron Collider, but this facility isn't another piece of 'big ticket' scientific infrastructure.
"I was just seduced," Dr. Colman said, "by the enthusiasm for building scientific infrastructure and putting money into biotech".
But he added that it is up to local authorities to "support the scientific infrastructure" for testing.
"His main contribution," Dr. Wanner said, "was to organize psychology, make connections between people and create a more effective scientific infrastructure".
Dr. Shalala also noted that during the Clinton years, "we invested in the scientific infrastructure in this country in ways that will pay off for years to come".
Many Iraqis and successive American administrations were prepared to tolerate his brutalities and focus on the extraordinary improvement in Iraq's economy and in education, health care -- and in the scientific infrastructure that was to underpin his ambitious weapons programs.
In December, Washington authorized $3.7 billion to finance nanotechnology research, a sum the Chinese government cannot easily match within a scientific infrastructure that would itself take many more billions (and years) to build.
Among those opposing Bush, some anticipated that the measures would funnel yet more power and wealth to established, elitist universities, leaving large tracts of the country with no scientific infrastructure at all.
A network made up of nothing more than smartphones in pockets could prove invaluable in developing countries not only as an early warning system, but also by providing earthquake data from novel regions without much scientific infrastructure.
