Download or read book The Impact of National Goals on Basic Research written by Sino-German Centre for Science and published by Wiley-VCH. This book was released on 2000-06-29 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a collection of the contributions to the German-Chinese conference "Impact of National Goals on Basic Research" which took place at Berlin in March 1999. Referees from both countries report about the importance of basic research, especially in the context of national goals. The articles cover a broad range of various aspects regarding these topics, like the role of universities in basic research, social acceptance of scientific progress, and interdisciplinary research.