Europe’s universities suffer from “Wimbledon syndrome”: they invented the game, but nowadays they stand no chance of being champions. Higher spending on research and development would help, but not without far-reaching institutional reforms.
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COPENHAGEN -- Writing at home sometime ago, with Wimbledon on TV in the background, it occurred to me that just as Britain hosts the world’s top tennis tournament but never wins it, so we Europeans are in a similar situation with education.