02.11.2012, 21:49
Zitat:Iran and Turkey Closing in on Israel When It Comes to Science
By: Yerach Tal posted on Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012
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While governmental research budgets for scientific R&D in Israel have eroded in the past decade, Arab and Islamic countries have increased their investments by tens of billions of dollars.
A report published by the Thomson Reuters Corporation reveals that this process is mainly taking place in five countries: Turkey, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
The researchers note that the rapid progress in the Middle Eastern countries is the result of high investments, new initiatives to construct research centers, collaboration with high-quality universities of developed countries and more. Thus, for example, Saudi Arabia recently inaugurated a science and technology university with an investment of $20 billion. In Qatar, an “education city” was built on an expanse of 14 square kilometers — the size of [Israeli city of] Kfar Saba — boasting six branches of leading universities from all over the world. Not far from there, an $8 billion research center will be inaugurated this year. In Abu Dhabi, renewable energy [and sustainability] research is being studied with the cooperation of leading American universities.
But the highest scientific research activity rate is to be found in Iran. According to the Thomson Reuters report, the scope of Iran’s research activity is growing at a yearly rate that is 11 times greater than the rest of the world’s countries.
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