Dutch oddity as a remarkable strength

3 juni 2009 | “When I first came to Amsterdam, I thought the Dutch research and HE systems were quite odd. All those collaboration-gremiums, all this emphasis on integration of external, social questions into research planning.” But now the British science policy professor and advisor to the OECD and several governments, Stuart Blume, feels that this oddity has become a remarkable strength in the global R&D community of the 21st century.