Academic research, chemical, declining

The combination of declining industrial demand for trained chemists as well as for academic chemical research, plus the government budget cuts resulting from the economic crisis (in Saxony this was described as a "financial catastrophe"), clearly had a negative effect on the development of academic research. Certainly efforts to expand and modernize research facilities were weakened, as the old pattern of building new institutes for newly hired chemists became virtually impossible during the crisis years. ... 

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