The Harvest of Science Education

30 juni 2009 | If a government is really prepared to invest in science, the social and economic pay-off will be tremendous, history shows. But without a knowledge boost, talks about a knowledge economy are like promoting an oil economy without oil, it is argued by Jos Engelen, who lately became president of the Dutch Science Council NWO. He points at the impact of the work of Gerard ‘t Hooft, who started as a student in Utrecht.