EUROPE: R&D at bay as Hungary prepares to host its first EU agency
September 1st, 2009
By Zsolt Balla
It was just over a year ago, on 15 September, 2008, when the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), the EU's flagship initiative to boost Europe's competitiveness on a highly globalised battlefield of development and innovation, held its constituent meeting in Budapest, Hungary, its future headquarters. Since then preparations to host the agency have been far from even. The meeting was addressed by Hungary's then-prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsány and then-minister of research and development Károly Molnár, both of whom seemed ...
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