EUROPE: Poor links between EU researchers and business holding back commecial innovation
June 7th, 2008
By Alan Osborn
The European Union (EU) will have to achieve much greater progress in bridging the gap between research and industry if it is to make a success of its Lisbon Strategy for making the EU the world's most competitive economy by 2010, a conference on Innovating for Competitiveness in ICT (information and communication technologies) was told in Brussels last week (May 28). This has been a familiar charge for much of the past five years but little seems to have changed over that time and it is now becoming possible to detect a mood of rising impatience. ...
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