November 3, 2006

Academics Criticize European Institute

By AISHA LABI

The European Union's controversial plan to establish a European Institute of Technology, inspired by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, remains on track, and the proposed institution could be established by 2008, officials said in October.

Yet business leaders have questioned the plan to foster European innovation through EIT, as the new university has been dubbed, and the project has failed to attract much of the support from private industry that will be important to its