Such concentration of science funding apparently offends the researchers' sense of égalité.
Although the metropolitan area has the highest concentration of medical science talent in the country, it lags far behind the Boston and San Francisco areas as a center for turning their ideas into products and services.
"Vertex moving out will be a ripple for Cambridge, where there's the world's biggest concentration of life science companies, the universities and where big pharma like Novartis, Sanofi Aventis, Merck and Amgen continue to expand".
A related aspect has to do with the initial concentration of philosophers of science on highly international themes from physics and mathematics, which facilitated communication and dialogue across linguistic and cultural barriers.
It has the largest concentrations of cutting edge science compared to any other city bidding.
ON JULY 12th, the London School of Economics LSEE) will be opening a new £6.5m "research lab", part-funded by the government and the Wellcome Foundation, which claims to bring together "the largest concentration of social sciences and economic expertise outside the US".
RTP is also home to two major US government health and environmental agencies: the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the Environmental Protection Agency EPAA), making the area the largest concentration of environmental sciences research in the world.
In cities where there are large concentrations of such immigrants in science and engineering, overall wages tend to go up, especially among college-educated American residents, and eventually, so do housing prices, according to a study by Giovanni Peri, an economist at the University of California, Davis.
Virgil, Homer, Eliot, Dante and Rilke play useful roles in his efforts to understand the life he lived in the concentration camp, as does his deep knowledge of science.
Maryland has the highest U.S. concentration of STEM workers (science, technology, engingeering, and mathematics)—4.7% of the population according to a new state-by-state analysis released today by the Commission of Professionals on Science and Technology in Washington, D.C. Mississippi has the lowest, with 1.3%.
