Scientific and research infrastructures are platforms, resources and associated services that scientific communities use to carry out R&D activities in specific scientific areas, in all fields of knowledge. They support the development of research and innovation by bringing together human and material resources capable of solving increasingly complex problems in all scientific fields.
R&D infrastructures include large scientific equipment, sets of scientific instruments, collections and other knowledge-based resources, scientific archives and data, computing and programming systems, communication networks that promote digital open access, as well as other infrastructures of a unique nature that are essential to stimulate excellence in research and development activities.
Radiation sources, biological databases, earth and space observatories, imaging systems or aseptic chambers for the study and development of new materials and nanoelectronics constitute research infrastructures that provide the basis on which new knowledge and innovations can develop.
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Research infrastructures
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Updated on June 20, 2024