When times are tough, the ten-dency among Western coun-tries is to knuckle down and de-mand that research produce results fast. South Korea, with its new Institute for Basic Science(IBS), is doing the op-posite. Starting with 15 or so research centers this year, the IBS is on an ambi-tious track to grow by 2017 into a net-work of 50 centers with a total annual budget of $600 million
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