The UK government has asked the National Endowment for Science, Technology & the Arts to come up with a new index of innovation achievement. But by any measure, says NESTA’s Sami Mahroum, the UK is moving up.
The European Commission has introduced rules to harmonise conditions for mobile services on aircraft, paving the way for a pan-European telecoms network in the air.
The UK has launched a new free searchable database for published patents data, allowing users to search and download published patent information, on-line, free of charge.
In the past two years 2.8 million European internet identities have been registered, making .eu, at its second birthday, the fourth most popular top level domain in Europe and the ninth worldwide.
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