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Befriending your competitors

Nature Materials volume 7, pages 3–5 (2008)Cite this article

'Globalization' is familiar in the context of the international expansion of corporations, but what does it mean when applied to research and education? Nature Materials examines the visions of globalization from the Provost of Georgia Institute of Technology, the President of California Institute of Technology and the Director of New Business Development of Solvay.

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Figure 1: The beginnings of globalized research? Participants of the Conseil de Physique Solvay 1911.

BENJAMIN COUPRIE, 1911

Figure 2: Georgia Tech's global presence.
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Cleave, V. Befriending your competitors. Nature Mater 7, 3–5 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2093

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