Brussels, 15 April 2008 – Following its spring 2007 Communication on knowledge transfer, the Commission adopted, on 10 April 2008, a specific, non-binding Recommendation on intellectual property and knowledge transfer management. The aim is to make EU national systems more coherent and boost transnational academia-industry cooperation to turn more research into lucrative business results. For…
Brussels, 12 March 2008 – “Europe’s outstanding research results in the renewable energy sector need to be exploited more systematically and at a greater success rate” says Katharina Krell, Secretary General of the European Association of Renewable Energy Research Centres EUREC Agency and co-founder of Greenovate! Europe. As co-ordinator of the FP6 support action ProRETT looking into the commercial…
Brussels, 14 February 2008 – The wheels of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) were set in motion this week when Jan Figel, the European Commissioner for Education and Culture, announced the composition of the committee tasked with recommending members for the EIT Governing Board. Speaking to the European Parliament and the Council…
On 29 January 2008, EUREC Agency and Greeenovate presented the results of the technology transfer promotion project ProRETT at the Committee of the Regions during the European Sustainable Energy Week. Over 150 participants had registered for the workshop on “Policy recommendations and good practice for effective support to the innovation process from research to market: Lessons learnt from 63…
Brussels, 6 February 2008 – In its last report on the implementation of the EU Energy Performance of Building Directive, published on Monday, the European energy network (ENR) underlined the necessity for the EU to set out a deadline by which all new buildings should be required to have zero net energy demand and carbon emissions….
Brussels, 10 January 2008 – The European Commission has announced a new ‘Lead markets initiative for Europe’ to boost competitiveness and innovation in rapidly-growing markets of six selected sectors. The “Lead markets initiative for Europe” focuses on coordination of policies affecting the innovation performance of these sectors and on removing barriers to technological advances. It will…
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