Let the best universities win

Let the best universities win - Peter Koekoek 16 September 2010, Science Business

Europe urgently needs to concentrate funding on its existing research honey pots to keep pace with emerging powers like India and China, even though this will reinforce the stronger universities in countries like Germany, Finland or the UK, rather than helping to build research capacity in the South of Europe, says Greek MEP Ioannis Tsoukalas.