Linklater's Scotland:Innovation, investment and incoming talent have turned the tide for Aberdeen University

From: Scotland on Sunday | Date: May 28, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

WHAT persuades a world-renowned professor of chemical engineering from one of the richest universities in South America to move to Aberdeen? Why would an American expert in comparative literature reverse the brain drain to come to work in Scotland? What lures a mediaevalist away from Cambridge and detaches two distinguished Hispanic professors from one of the most prestigious universities in the United States? In short, if you're a small university in the north of Scotland, how do you compete in the cut-throat academic world of research and teaching?

Answer: you try harder. You go all-out to ...

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