西德联邦政府一位高级官员称,规划战后西德科学重建计划的人面临一种引人注目的体制抉择,后来使科学管理方面的突出模式成了目前那样既有英国式的研究委员会,又有美国式的国家实验室,只有马克斯·普朗克协会才是正宗的德国式的。不管怎样解释,大型实验室是目前西德研究机构中一个重要组成部分。比较突出的是,它们由联邦研究技术部直接领导,总共十二个机 A senior official of the German Federal Government said that those planning a post-war reconstruction of science in Germany faced a compelling institutional choice that later made the prominent mode of scientific management an existing British-style research board, There are American-style national laboratories, and only the Max Planck Association is authentic German. Whatever the explanation, large laboratories are an important part of West German research. More prominent is that they are directly led by the Federal Department of Research and Technology, a total of twelve machines