European Union

The first seminar on how to select and format the EIT’s Knowledge and Innovation Communities was held in Bratislava this week.

Global research spending soared in 2007, with Microsoft pulling into the lead. But don’t expect a repeat this year, warns Commissioner Potočnik.

The European Security and Research Innovation Forum presented its interim agenda for a single programme of research to improve security while protecting civil rights and creating single market for security products.

Commission President José Manuel Barroso is convinced that the EIT can play a major role in making Europe tomorrow’s magnet for talent.

The European Research Council has announced the winners in the physical and social sciences categories of its first €517 million round of Advanced Grants.

Linnar Viik, the Estonian involved in the launch of Skype, has been selected to the 18-strong board of the nascent European Institute of Innovation and Technology.

Too many initiatives in the European Union are blunted by lack of clarity. That can’t happen with cluster policy, says the Science|Business Innovation Board.

Albania has moved closer to membership of the European Union, signing up to the entrepreneurship and innovation arm of the EU’s programme for SMEs.