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Tide of International Science Moving Against US, EU

Posted by kdawson on from the old-guard-passing dept.

explosivejared writes "The Economist has a story on the increasing scientific productivity of countries like China, India, and Brazil relative to the field's old guards in America, Europe, and Japan. Scientific productivity in this sense includes percent of GDP spent on R&D and the overall numbers of researchers, scholarly articles, and patents that a country produces. The article notes increasing levels of international collaboration on scholarly scientific articles in leading journals. From the article: '[M]ore than 35% of articles in leading journals are now the product of international collaboration. That is up from 25% 15 years ago — something the old regime and the new alike can celebrate.'" Note that the "old guard" are still firmly in the lead on these measures of scientific prowess, but the growth rate is higher in the newcomer states.

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  1. Just too bad by countertrolling · · Score: 5, Funny

    We here in the States have much more pressing issues at the moment... Science is for pagans and heathens

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    1. Re:Just too bad by paiute · · Score: 5, Funny

      I read that article and I think maybe they're trying to solve the wrong problem. Rather than training more priests to perform exorcisms maybe they need to stop looking for demons in everything.

      When all you've got is holy water, every problem looks like a demon.

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    2. Re:Just too bad by Urkki · · Score: 5, Funny

      I say make more people MBAs! We need more MBAs!!

      (What do MBAs actually do? Cause at my work all they seem to do is regurgitate things I say and make very boring power point presentations with the same clip art and generic percentage data about general stuff)

      MBAs talk to other MBAs. It takes an MBA to do that, really. Without MBAs in between, you don't know what engineers and other riff-raff would be up to. Just look at the OSS communities without MBAs, they're total disasters, no useful output what so ever, total waste of human resources.

  2. Re:Here's the solution by Godskitchen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh God! A Borders assistant manager.