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Nature 441, 932 (22 June 2006) | doi:10.1038/441932d; Published online 21 June 2006

Open Innovation Challenges

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Education and training put Iran ahead of richer states

Mohammad Reza Mohebbi1 & Mehri Mohebbi2

  1. Department of Neurology, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
  2. Center for Immigration Research, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, USA

We read with interest your News report "Arab state pours oil profits into science" (Nature 441, 132–133; 2006). Other countries in the Gulf have also tried to spend oil money on setting up branches of Western universities, which is of arguable value when the infrastructure and the basic prerequisites of scientific research do not exist.

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