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The success rate of ISP is exemplified by a study carried out in 2016, which showed that 92% of previously ISP-supported research groups were still pursuing research and PhD training. The model applies long-term collaborative support to institutionally based research groups and scientific networks, aiming at strengthening institutional research capacity, producing and disseminating high-quality research results, and graduating MSc and PhD holders. ISP was founded in 1961, and has for more than 60 years of operation established a successful model for strengthening the capacity in the basic sciences mathematics, physics and chemistry in primarily low and lower middle-income countries. None of the breakthrough discoveries had been achieved without long term, predictable, sustained financing.

Research and training needs long term investments.

Basic science provides the evidence base for responding to many of the most basic challenges facing low or lower-middle income countries.

Basic science underpins productivity and international competitiveness, that is, key drivers of sustainable economic growth in a globalised world.

Market forces are such that OECD research institutes, and companies, rarely invest in research of direct interest to low and lower-middle income countries.

The World Bank finds that the gap between research and development spending between rich and poor countries is much larger than the income gap between those countries. Expenditure on Research and Development is low in low and lower-middle income countries.

Research in the basic sciences is a “public good”, and often a global public good.Most of the flagship breakthroughs in development that benefit the poor have science at their core.There are, several reasons are given why aid money should be used to support basic sciences: This question was answered in the evaluation of ISP’s operation 2003-2010.