EUROPE: University experts seek commercial research success
November 1st, 2010
BY David Haworth
Too few universities teach about turning science into specific products to be sold on the markets and lack entrepreneurship departments which instruct ways in which ideas can be turned into money. Dr Bernd Huber, president of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, tells an audience of some 300 researchers attending a Brussels conference on the future of Europe's science and technology.
His comments were in the familiar context of concern about the gap between the European Union's (EU) research dynamic and those of the USA, Japan and, in ...
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