“The end of the science superpowers – Could the end of US world dominance over research mark the passing of national science giants[?]“, fragen J. Rogers Hollingsworth (Wisconsin), Karl H. Müller (Wien) und Ellen Jane Hollingsworth (Wisconsin) in Nature 454, 412-413 (24 July 2008). Ihr Fazit:

The decline of the US economy relative to those of the rest of the world is facilitating the strengthening of science elsewhere. An evolving multi-polar world economy is leading to multiple centres of science – the United States, the European Union, Japan, China, Russia and possibly India. The increasing wealth of several of these societies is enabling them to lure back many younger scientists trained abroad in the world’s leading institutions. […]

All in all, it seems unlikely that we will witness another unrivalled scientific behemoth in the mould of France, Germany, Britain and United States.

J. Rogers Hollingsworth hält dazu am Montag, 29. 9. 2008 um 20 Uhr eine “INTERAKTIONEN LECTURE”, veranstaltet vom Institut für Zeitgeschichte, in der Aula (Universitätscampus, Spitalgasse 2-4/Hof 1, 1090 Wien). Auf der Homepage der Zeitgeschichte ist ein PDF des Artikels abrufbar.

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