Fifteen member states had no system for allowing third party nationals into the EU to carry out scientific research when the deadline for applying the directive passed last week.
Mark Keane has been appointed Vice President for Innovation at University College Dublin, with a brief to be the focal point for knowledge transfer, entrepreneurship and external partnerships.
The European Commission has authorised €31 million aid from the French Industrial Innovation Agency for OSIRIS, an agricultural biotechnology research programme.
Despite the Nobel-induced champagne now flowing in Berlin, Jülich, Paris and Cardiff, the fact remains that Europe has a fundamental problem in the quality of its science.
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