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Boffins ask for £338m to fund quantum research. UK.gov: Here's £80m

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>Yes if only there was a some way we could combine our research effort with a number of countries with shared economic interests, some sort of union

Amusing. Except from that I have been i such pan European projects and seen it from the inside. And it was pretty ugly, a science version of Fawlty Towers. A lot of companies just see the funding as means to add to the gross turnover without actually delivering the goods. And due to the structure of these project the project manager has absolutely no way of putting a stop to it.

My in project experience is that pork barrels are not found in the US alone.

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