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The European Commission is endorsing the use of tax incentives to stimulate investment on R&D, and calling for a single standardised approach across member states.

Europe needs to shape up its IT department and make us all better at applying and using computers, says the European Union’s ICT taskforce.

A new agency is needed with significant funds to pull through research ideas into viable products and services, says the UK Conservative Party.

Earlier this week, Ocean Tomo launched an Intellectual Property index for the US market. The index only covers US stocks – and it would be interesting to think about constructing a similar index for the UK market.

With different regimes for tax incentives for R&D across the EU, it can be hard to forge the country-to-country links that they like to encourage in the Framework Programme. Some new notes from Brussels set out to make life easier in the future.

The European Commission is wasting no time looking for ways to spend its new massive €54 billion research budget for 2007 to 2013.

SAS chief executive Jim Goodnight says governments should buy computers for every European schoolchild to remain competitive.