Around 400,000 E.U.-born science graduates live in the U.S. Thousands more go to study and work each year. But the E.U. needs 700,000 more researchers by 2010. Can Europe bring its best and brightest back home?
Inadequate resources, including poor facilities and low pay
Stifling bureaucracy, especially in France and Germany , hurts efficiency
Better career opportunities abroad. Europeans fill academic postdoc jobs that Americans shun in favor of industry
What May Lure Them Back Higher funding. The European Commission is spending €17.5 billion onR and D from 2002 through 2006
More meritocracy, replacing the traditional hierarchical model
Stronger pan-E.U. networks, especially through a European Research Council
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Inadequate resources, including poor facilities and low pay 
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