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There are some clear trends in terms of design, supply and productivity of scientific equipment.On the one hand, technological progress drives the creation of large-scale infrastructures, increases the quality of the research and access to research results.On the other hand, scientific progress requires higher and higher standards of performance.There is a process of increasing investment in scientific basis, accompanied by reduction and sharing of operational costs to work with scientific equipment as a result of the introduction of technological innovations and the use of distributed access from virtually anywhere in the world.Investment intensity in research grows due to increasing need of advanced scientific equipment by a growing number of scientific fields, such as life sciences.
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