Cutting or increasing?!?
Roberto Cerbino
Sunday, 16 November 2008 10:53 UTC
A long time ago the EU has decided that the investment in research should increase to 3% of its gross domestic product (GDP).
Italy is investing only a small fraction of what European Members committed themselves to do. According to official data (ISTAT, 2005) Italy has invested in R&D only 1.1% of its GDP. This figure is well below the actual European average of 1.9%.
A discussion about this issue was started by Massimo here in May.
Since then I think we have got an answer by our politicians. They say that before putting more money in, they want to be sure that all sources of waste are gone.
Well, this is a respectable opinion. But why cutting should help?!? Does anybody believe that such a “dietary regime” will benefit to Italian research on a long time basis? I personally do not.
-
Replies
-
I was rather intrigued by an article on The Economist, in its most recent issue, which concludes:
The Government retorts that Italy’s ultra-low birth rate has created what Ms Gelmini calls “an historic opportunity” to raise quality by spending less.
Fewer children, fewer students, less money into Universities. Well that’s their opinion.
Full article here
-
Can’t you see how lucky we are? We don’t need entertainers to make us laugh: we have our ministers!
-
