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Although several cooperative ventures in science and technology have been developed in Europe since the Second World War, the European Economic Community must decide on a European policy if the most is to be made of future possibilities.
This year the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Federal Germany's unique arrangement for the funding of independent research, enters on an unprecedented programme of structural reforms. Its sixty-year evolution may well provide object lessons for other European governments.
Some of the scientific research at present done in Dutch universities may be transferred to separate institutes if suggestions based on a study by a team of management consultants are implemented.
Although the intersecting storage rings and the new machine attract most of the attention, the existing facilities still have a vital role to play as does the cooperation with the laboratory at Serpukhov.
Experience with Dragon shows that European cooperative projects can be fruitful if their objectives are specific and if sufficient executive power is given to them.
