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The way is now open to Albania’s full participation in the EU’s Seventh Research Framework Programme.

The EU’s top R&D administrator gives a preview of changes ahead for 2008 – including plans to increase the mobility of researchers.

The art of innovation – putting one’s ideas first, trumpeting your merits, taking on risk – is most “un-Finnish”. But not to one Finn.

Researchers and institutions in Germany and the UK dominate in the starting grants for independent research issued by the recently created European Research Council.

Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik called for Europe to adopt a global culture of entrepreneurship in the face of the challenge from China and India.

An academic–industry consortium is setting up a centre to support collaborative research and technology transfer between the UK and India.