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Innovationspotential von Zusammenlegungen und Fusionen von Wissenschaftseinrichtungen am Beispiel des Karlsruher Instituts für Technologie (KIT)

Book chapter published by De Gruyter on 2014-08-29 analyzing how consolidations and mergers of research institutions can affect innovation, using the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology as a case study.

On December 8, 1987, the ESO Council gave the green light to the "ESO 16-metre Very Large Telescope (VLT)", an extraordinary astronomers' dream and an amazing engineering challenge. The VLT was to become the largest optical telescope in the world and Europe's superior eye to the Universe.The delegates of the eight member states (Belgium, Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland) agreed that the European Southern Observatory shall embark upo
Illustrative image: On December 8, 1987, the ESO Council gave the green light to the "ESO 16-metre Very Large Telescope (VLT)", an extraordinary astronomers' dream and an amazing engineering challenge. The VLT was to become the largest optical telescope in the world and Europe's superior eye to the Universe.The delegates of the eight member states (Belgium, Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland) agreed that the European Southern Observatory shall embark upo — ESO/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

Categories: science-and-space, positive-progress

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Explores effects of institutional mergers on research innovation, relevant to higher-education policymakers and administrators.

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