Paris bets big on science and technology with new mega-university (Joseph Parilla, Marek Gootman, Brookings)

When asked how to create a great city, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan said: “Create a great university and wait 200 years.” It would be an understatement, then, to say that the fall 2015 launch of the University of Paris-Saclay—which merges 18 French academic and research institutions in one sprawling 30-square-mile research campus—heeds Moynihan’s words. As part of a Global Cities Initiative research effort to benchmark the Paris region’s global competitiveness, we visited the Paris-Saclay cluster to better understand this transformative investment.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2016/05/11-paris-mega-university-parilla-gootman