EUROPE: Be less nationalistic Brussels tells researchers
September 1st, 2008
By Alan Osborn
Research in the EU countries is too national in focus to be fully effective says the European Commission and this poses a "major obstacle" to the ambitious Lisbon strategy for giving the EU a global lead in technology by 2010. Brussels claims that some 85% of public sector research in Europe is programmed, financed, monitored and evaluated at national level and only 15% of public civil R&D is financed on a cross-border collaborative basis. This means that a significant proportion of the EU's research effort is compromised by ...
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