Moreover, according to Basting, US companies can afford to hire away the best and brightest young Ph.D.s from their home countries. Decentralization should be the order of the day. That is how an experiment will be done. He also notes that there is a lot of international work, in the standards area, for example, that is normal every day activity that oftentimes goes unnoticed. From the US perspective, the best role that a national government can play is to remove hurdles and facilitate cooperation.
Informal relationships are preferred.
The encouragement of international scientific cooperation is a fundamental underpinning of German science policy. In this spirit, the German government is sponsoring a large number and broad spectrum of international institutional programs, and project activities as an issue of high value and great importance in itself. In the same spirit, efforts to foster international cooperation and mobility across borders is high on the political agenda of the European Union in the course of further developing a common European market. This will be even intensified by the introduction of the Euro, because it will be much easier for state governments and institutions to benchmark their relative research activities. But, to Germans, ISC has cultural dimensions as well.