11-09 :: September 2011

nanotimes Trends Quotes

“The US continues to be the world‘s powerhouse for research, with the number of universities in the world‘s top 200 remaining constant since 2003, at about 90. But at the same time there has been a substantial slide in the average performance of all US universities in the 201-500 world ranking, with 19 disappearing from the top 500 places altogether.

There are now 23 mainland Chinese research uni- versities in the top 500, up from only nine in 2003, with Tsinghua University leading the Chinese pack in the 151-200 world ranking. Indeed, almost every US university that has dropped out of the top 500 has been replaced by a Chinese institution.”

Sean Gallagher: AUSTRALIA: Research lessons for China and the US, In: www.university- worldnews.com, September 11, 2011:

ht tp: / /www.univer s i tywor ldnews .com/ar t icle. php?story=20110909190641129

“Of all the investment in R&D in the EU, 45 percent is public money. That’s not how it is in America, where the rate is only 33 percent, or in Japan or South Korea, where the percentage of public money is under 30 percent.”

In: Sebastián Tobarra, Ricardo Martínez de Rituerto: Europe lagging in the sciences, In: EL PAÍS, February 03, 2011:

http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/488981- europe-lagging-sciences

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Harold Ford, a former Democratic member of Congress from Tennessee and a visiting professor at New York University, In: Wall Street Journal, October 17, 2011

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