| A Saudi report on scientific research in the Arabian Gulf shows that the UAE needs to boost funding for such studies, academics say. The UAE was lagging behind Saudi Arabia in the number of scientific studies published, according to the study conducted in 2014 and last year by the college of medicine at King Saud University.
"The UAE is a sovereign wealth fund which is being used to fund the likes of Masdar and Khalifa University, but the funding isn’t invested on behalf of the university. Funding goes to the universities. But in a sense, the universities are competing with all the other goods the sovereign wealth fund might be supporting."...........................................Full Article: Source
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