New Mega-University In Paris

Paris Bets Big on Science and Technology with New Mega-University

Joseph Parilla and Marek Gootman | May 11, 2016

When asked how to create a great city, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan said: “Create a great university and wait 200 years.”  It would be an understatement, then, to say that the fall 2015 launch of the University of Paris-Saclay—which merges 18 French academic and research institutions in one sprawling 30-square-mile research campus—heeds Moynihan’s words. As part of a Global Cities Initiative research effort to benchmark the Paris region’s global competitiveness, we visited the Paris-Saclay cluster to better understand this transformative investment.

Paris-Sacaly. "The university, south of Paris, is planned as a hi-tech "knowledge hub" to drive the French economy." Source; 

<more at http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2016/05/11-paris-mega-university-parilla-gootman; related articles and links: http://www.brookings.edu/about/programs/metro/innovation-districts (The Rise of Innovation Districts. A New Geography of Innovation in America. May 2014. [See full report at: http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Programs/metro/Images/Innovation/InnovationDistricts1.pdf) and http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30347441 (France plans elite top-10 mega-university. December 10, 2014)>