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Funding should recognize outcome, not income

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I was disappointed to read in your Editorial “Brown's budget briefing” (Nature 440, 581; 2006), discussing a future replacement for the UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), that you consider “external research income” as “a reasonable basis for departmental funding”.

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