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Concluding Remarks
Pages 94-97

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From page 94...
... To improve the understanding of complex phenomena, the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico brings together many Nobel Prize winners to explore complexity. Researchers in Santa Fe have found that our world is not predetermined, that it is far more unpredictable than we have imagined and hence much more challenging than the deterministic Newtonian world.
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From page 95...
... The United States and Europe should draw lessons from each of these important documents so that science on both sides of the Atlantic complements each other in the best possible way. The new approach, from Society, The Endless Frontier, is also the basis of the new European Union' s Framework Programme for Research and its problemdriven structure.
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From page 96...
... With increasing S&T cooperation between the European Community and the United States, we should neither forget nor underestimate the numerous opportunities for collaboration at the bilateral level. Collaboration can proceed between the United States and EU member states or directly between universities and industries from both sides.
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From page 97...
... In closing I want to talk about the brain as a model for collaboration between the United States and the European Union. Gordon Moore's speech reminds us of the increasing miniaturization of computing power, as reflected in Moore's law.
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