Small Science refers (in contrast to Big Science) to science performed in a smaller scale, such as by individuals, small teams or within community projects.
Bodies, which fund research, such as for example the National Science Foundation, DARPA or the EU with its Framework programs has a tendency to fund larger scale research projects. Reasons for that are the idea, that ambitious research needs significant resources devoted for its execution and the reduction of administrative and overhead costs on the funding body side. However, small science which has data that is often local and is not easily shared is funded in many areas such as chemistry and biology by these funding bodies.
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