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Reading list - What makes MIT tick?

Is MIT really that special? Does it have lessons for others? A recent paper says that you have to line up a bunch of related factors – scientific, organisational, regional and so on. Picking them off one at a time won’t work.
19 Mar 2007

Europe’s GM crops row ignites anew

A tale of two cities: as the industry in Lyon trumpeted the benefits of biotech, MEPs in Strasbourg looked the other way, and declined to debate them
13 Mar 2007