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A $1.35B government grant over ten years? Talk about proping up your dying industry. Surely there are research universities and any other number of more capable
by hemancuso 14y ago
A $1.35B government grant over ten years? Talk about proping up your dying industry. Surely there are research universities and any other number of more capable research groups that could benefit to divide such a huge grant. This is a mobile phone company with fairly little investment in materials science from what I can tell. Unless injection molded plastics count.
- akiselev 14y agohttp://research.nokia.com/ http://research.nokia.com/ Nokia still has almost 100,000 employees. Their research unit is over 500 people and world wide. Anyway, this money probably won't all go to Nokia as it is likely to collaborate with a lot of universities.
- jre 14y agoA little bit of context here : The graphene project[1] is one of the two "flagship" research projects in which the European Union just announced it will invest €1B over ten years. The other winner is the "human brain project"[2]. Those two were selected out of the 6 finalists [3]. The thing about those projects though is that no single institution or company is getting the €1B. In each project, the partners are distributed over all Europe and include the leading universities. Now, according to the graphene project webpage, two Nokia researchers will take part in the project[4]. And from their short bio, it looks like they work with graphene. [1] http://www.graphene-flagship.eu/GF/index.php http://www.graphene-flagship.eu/GF/index.php [2] http://www.humanbrainproject.eu/ http://www.humanbrainproject.eu/ [3] http://www.fet-f.eu/ http://www.fet-f.eu/ [4] http://www.graphene-flagship.eu/GF/consortium.php#p8 http://www.graphene-flagship.eu/GF/consortium.php#p8