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Article: Projecting success. (Feature).
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- Swiss News
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- July 1, 2003
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Just over a half a year ago, apocalyptic predictions hung heavy over Switzerland's R&D scene. But with a reigning Nobel Prize winner for chemistry and an ambitious new project, 'Science City', Zurich's Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) is aiming to become one of the foremost centers of research in Europe.
It was little over six months ago that Xavier Comtesse of the Swiss think tank, Avenir Suisse, made the controversial proclamation that Switzerland was suffering from a serious case of brain drain, as all its best scientific and technological tab ent was being drawn to schools and research platforms abroad in the face of what some have described as "anaemic" ...