Tudományszervezési Tájékoztató, 1967

3-4. szám - Bibliográfia

The Organization of Scientific Research in Sweden In Sweden, a country of 7»5 million population, the state plays an ever growing role in science policy and organization; and the state's share in technological, scientific, medical, agricultural and nuclear researches increases correspondingly. Relying on an OECD report, the article gives an account of state expenditures on the individual branches of research, and also of the organization of higher education which is almost entirely state-supported. Higher educational institutions of private character receiving grants by the state, as well as researches carried on within various industrial concerns are also of great moment in Swedish science. Scientific societies and foundations of great prestige, too, add characteristically to the features of the organization of research in Sweden. The brief review closes with referring to the country's international scientific relations. The Growth of Science and the International Distribution of Scientists Reviewing Professor Charles Kidd's study in "Impact of Science on Society", the article deals with the problems of the scientists' migration from the less developed • areas to the highly developed countries on the one hand, and with the migration between certain developed countries on the other. The author enumerates the measures which seem likely to decrease the scientists' migration. The migration is particularly harmful to the developing countries and may involve catastrophic consequences. The author also outlines the dilemma the developed countries must face, resulting from the export of capitals to and the import of scientists from the less developed countries. What the author recommends is an international co-operation to survey this phenomenon. In his opinion, the migration of scientists is highly problematic, but dynamic and inevitable factor of the development of modern science. 576