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I think people are completely misreading this. It's not 1.35 billion to Nokia. It's 1.35 billion to fund research in the area by many companies / universities /

by jsnell 14y ago

I think people are completely misreading this. It's not 1.35 billion to Nokia. It's 1.35 billion to fund research in the area by many companies / universities / etc, with Nokia being just one of them. (Or at least that's how I read the article).

guelo 14y ago
Yea, this CNET story is a badly rewritten and less informative version of Nokia's press release which includes the fact that the winner of the money is the Graphene Flagship Consortium which consists of 74 different groups including many universities and governmental research institutions. Nokia is just representing the electronics sector in the consortium.
TelmoMenezes 14y ago
Exactly. This was one of the two European flagship projects that were selected to receive a big research grant. The other was the Human Brain Project. These grants are given to consortiums that include universities and private companies. These were the contenders: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/programme/fet/flagship/6pilots_en.html http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/programme/fet/flagship/6pilo... And here's the consortium for graphene. Notice that the leader is the Chalmers University of Technology, Nokia comes in 8th: http://www.graphene-flagship.eu/GF/index.php http://www.graphene-flagship.eu/GF/index.php
hkmurakami 14y ago
I think we can at least partly blame the subtitle, which explicitly (and incorrectly) states that Nokia won a 1.35 billion grant.