{"id":257,"date":"2010-07-29T13:30:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T17:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccrccr.srv2.cfshosting.ca\/an-open-letter-to-the-40th-parliament-from-canadas-research-community-2\/"},"modified":"2010-07-29T13:30:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T17:30:38","slug":"an-open-letter-to-the-40th-parliament-from-canadas-research-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccr-ccr.ca\/fr\/an-open-letter-to-the-40th-parliament-from-canadas-research-community\/","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter to the 40th Parliament from Canada\u2019s Research Community"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dear Parliamentarians,<\/p>\n

“Publicly Funded Research: The Essential Foundation for\u00a0 Excellence in Commercialization.” So wrote Industry Canada’s business-based Expert Panel on the Commercialization of R&D.<\/p>\n

Their 2006 recommendations “are based on one key premise: continuing government commitment to publicly funded research carried out with little or no expectation of commercial application.” (What we call basic research.) “The challenge for government is to increase — not merely maintain — its investments in publicly funded research, while encouraging private sector R&D”.<\/p>\n

In other words, this distinguished primarily-business group insists that we must have increased but balanced investments in basic and targeted research.<\/p>\n

It’s widely accepted that basic research is essential to our long-term prosperity, and we can’t rely on the rest of the world to do it for us.<\/p>\n

Recent Budgets contained some welcome support for university research. But, unlike the U.S., basic research is being squeezed in favour of increased shorter-term targeted efforts. Please use your influence to ensure that Canada’s research granting agencies and universities have the money for increased support of basic research too.<\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

Roland Andersson
\nActing Chair, Canadian Consortium for Research<\/p>\n

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Dear Parliamentarians, “Publicly Funded Research: The Essential Foundation for\u00a0 Excellence in Commercialization.” So wrote Industry Canada’s business-based Expert Panel on the Commercialization of R&D. Their 2006 recommendations “are based on one key premise: continuing government commitment to publicly funded research carried out with little or no expectation of commercial application.” (What we call basic research.) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actualites","tag-2006-fr","tag-budgets-fr","tag-business-fr","tag-expert-panle-fr","tag-government-commitment-fr","tag-open-letter-fr","tag-recommendations-fr","tag-research-community-fr","actualites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccr-ccr.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccr-ccr.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccr-ccr.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccr-ccr.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccr-ccr.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ccr-ccr.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccr-ccr.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccr-ccr.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccr-ccr.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}