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Using Europe’s €1,700 billion annual public procurement budget to stimulate innovation is an idea whose time is coming – slowly.

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.