Not so long ago, technology analyst, Armand Van Dormael, wrote in The European Journal (September) that Commission President José Manuel Barroso’s idea to create a €2.4bn European Institute of Technology (EIT) is out of touch with the industry’s cutting-edge issues and in the end, will not yield any noteworthy results.
The best we can hope for, he argued, is that the European Commission gets out of the way and lets the scientific community and the industry attempt to re-normalize the strategies and procedures of scientific research.
When will Brussels ever learn? Science and industry would be better off without them.
