Auftrag der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

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International Workshop on Research Policy
Incentives and Institutions Ministry of
Finance and Economics Rome, Italy November
28th, 2002 "Research Policy in Germany. The
German Approach to Search for Quality and Better
Results in Research" by Dr. Bernd Ebersold,
Director, Department for Research Policy and
Foreign Relations, Max Planck Society
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RD expenditure of the Federal Republic of
Germany by financing sector (2001)
Total RD expenditure 52,1 billion
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Gross domestic expenditure on research and
development - financing and performing sectors
billion, 2001

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• Structure of German research funding (simplified
  system)

Business enterprise sector
Federal Government
Federal states (Länder)
DFG
Higher education sector (universities)
Intramural research laboratories
HGF
MPG
FhG
Länder RD institutions
AiF institutes
WGL
Federal RD institutions
Industry-related RD institutions
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Academies
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HGF-Research Fields
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Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science

• President Prof. Peter Gruss
• Secretary General Dr. Barbara Bludau
• 80 Institutes
• 11,600 employees plus 8,500 junior scientists
• Annual budget 1.25 billion

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Locations I
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Student Assistants, Ph.D.Students, Post-docs,
Research Scholars and Guest Scientists (2001)
by Native Country
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Expenditure 2002 acc. to Sections
Total 1,252.6 mio
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BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE SECTION
MPI for BIOCHEMISTRY, Martinsried MPI for
BIOLOGY, Tübingen MPI for BIOPHYSICS,
Frankfurt/Main MPI for VASCULAR BIOLOGY,
Münster MPI for BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY,
Göttingen MPI for EXPERIMENTAL ENDOCRINOLOGY,
Hannover/Hanover MPI for DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY,
Tübingen Research Center Enzymology of Protein
Folding, Halle/Saale MPI for MOLECULAR GENETICS,
Berlin MPI for BRAIN RESEARCH, Frankfurt/Main MPI
for IMMUNOBIOLOGY, Freiburg MPI for INFECTION
BIOLOGY, Berlin MPI for BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS,
Tübingen MPI for LIMNOLOGY, Plön MPI for
EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE, Göttingen MPI for MEDICAL
RESEARCH, Heidelberg MPI for MARINE MICROBIOLOGY,
Bremen MPI for TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY,
Marburg Research Units for Structural Molecular
Biology at DESY, Hamburg MPI for NEUROBIOLOGY,
Martinsried MPI for NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH,
Köln/Cologne MPI for CHEMICAL ECOLOGY,
Jena Research Center for Ornithologie, Andechs
und Radolfzell MPI for MOLECULAR PLANT
PHYSIOLOGY, Golm MPI for MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY,
Dortmund MPI for PHYSIOL. AND CLINICAL RESEARCH,
Bad Nauheim MPI for PSYCHIATRIE,
München/Munich MPI für PSYCHOLINGUISTICS,
Nijmegen, NL MPI for CELL BIOLOGY, Ladenburg b.
Heidelberg MPI for MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND
GENETICS, Dresden MPI for PLANT BREEDING
RESEARCH, Köln/Cologne
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HUMANITIES SECTION
MPI for EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY , Leipzig MPI
Bibliotheca Hertziana Rome, Italy MPI for HUMAN
DEVELOPMENT , Berlin MPI for DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH
, Rostock MPI for SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY ,
Halle/Saale MPI For HISTORY , Göttingen MPI for
the STUDY of SOCIETIES , Köln/Cologne MPI for
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, COMPETITION AND TAX LAW,
München/Munich MPI for COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE ,
Leipzig MPI for FOREIGN AND INTERNATIONAL
PRIVATE LAW, Hamburg MPI for PSYCHOLOGICAL
RESEARCH , München/Munich MPI for EUROPEAN LEGAL
HISTORY , Frankfurt/Main MPI for FOREIGN AND
INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL LAW, München/Munich MPI for
FOREIGN AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW,
Freiburg MPI for COMPARATIVE PUBLIC LAW AND
INTERNATIONAL LAW, Heidelberg MPI for RESEARCH
INTO ECONOMIC SYSTEMS , Jena MPI for the HISTORY
OF SCIENCE , Berlin
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CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS and TECHNOLOGY SECTION
MPI for AERONOMY , Katlenburg-Lindau MPI for
ASTRONOMY , Heidelberg MPI for ASTROPHYSICS ,
Garching MPI for BIOGEOCHEMISTRY , Jena MPI for
CHEMISTRY (Otto-Hahn-Institut) , Mainz MPI for
DYNAMICS OF COMPLEX TECHNICAL SYSTEMS,
Magdeburg MPI for IRON RESEARCH , Düsseldorf MPI
For SOLID STATE RESEARCH , Stuttgart Fritz Haber
Institute, Berlin MPI for GRAVITATIONAL PHYSICS,
Golm b. Potsdam MPI for COMPUTER SCIENCE,
Saarbrücken MPI for NUCLEAR PHYSICS,
Heidelberg MPI for COAL RESEARCH ,
Mülheim/Ruhr MPI for COLLOID AND INTERFACE
RESEARCH , Golm/Potsdam MPI for MATHEMATICS ,
Bonn MPI for MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES,
Leipzig MPI for METALS RESEARCH , Stuttgart MPI
for METEOROLOGY , Hamburg MPI for MICROSTRUCTURE
PHYSICS, Halle/Saale MPI for PHYSICS,
München/Munich MPI for the PHYSICS OF COMPLEX
SYSTEMS , Dresden MPI for CHEMICAL PHYSICS OF
SOLIDS, Dresden MPI for EXTRATERRESTRIAL PHYSICS
, Garching MPI for PLASMA PHYSICS , Garching MPI
for POLYMER RESEARCH , Mainz MPI for QUANTUM
OPTICS , Garching MPI for RADIO ASTRONOMY ,
Bonn MPI for RADIATION CHEMISTRY ,
Mülheim/Ruhr MPI for FLOW RESEARCH , Göttingen
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The Max Planck Society Research at the Frontier
of Knowledge

• Essential Cornerstones
• sound financial support
• independence/autonomy
• quality control/evaluation system
• international cooperation
• support of young researchers

• Max Planck Society
• Mission

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BMBF Higher Investment into RD and Education
combined with structural reforms

• more competition-oriented funding
• new ways of steering and managing universities
  and research centers
• new career paths for young researchers
• performance-oriented pay for professors
• science and industry closer links
• new attitudes vis-à-vis and support of
  entrepreneurship
• public understanding of science Wissenschaft
  im Dialog
• Integration into European Research Area and
  internationalization

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Priorities in research funding
BMBF

• Genome research, biotechnology und health
  research
• Environmental and climate research
• Production research and materials research
• Nanotechnology and optical technologies
• Information and communication technologies
• Energy research
• Mobility and transport research
• Space research and technology

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Components of Successful Research
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• Max Planck Institutes are responsible for

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