Research money should promote excellence not cohesion, says Peter Frankenberg, Minister of Science, Research and the Arts for the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
The reshuffling of EU portfolios brings ‘innovation’ to the policy fore – but we are waiting for details (if they exist) of how it will all work, write Richard L. Hudson and Nuala Moran.
As the EU ponders an Innovation Act, the UK Business Secretary Peter Mandelson gave budding entrepreneurs his view of what government can bring to innovation.
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