Why France is building a mega-university at Paris-Saclay to rival Silicon Valley

By Jean-Claude Thoenig. After decades of planning, a new generation of students and researchers will start their first full academic year in September 2015 at the University of Paris-Saclay, a huge, ambitious project to bring together a group of 19 higher education institutions alongside a business cluster on the outskirts of the French capital. It has been dubbed the French Silicon Valley. More...