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Damned statistics? The UK could soon be left with just 12 or so statistics departments, with dozens more condemned to serve as mere support staff for other academic fields, it was claimed this week....
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Innovation and Competitiveness as Challenges - a "Cluster Alliance" as Europe's Answer
Brussels, 19 May 2006 Full text of Document 9398/06 Suite of documents 9398/06 The challenges of globalisation represented an important theme at the informal European Competitiveness Council that...
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European Technology Platforms for Information and Communication Technologies: Frequently Asked Questions
Brussels, 18 September 2006 European Technology Platforms for Information and Communication Technologies: Frequently Asked Questions What are European technology platforms? European Technology...
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UK drive to boost overseas numbers
The Government this week urged universities and colleges to boost their contribution to the UK economy by recruiting more overseas students and becoming global centres of excellence for teaching and...
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DTI caught in free-data row
Anna Fazackerley reports on claims that concern over the profits of the big publishers led the Government to interfere in research council plans to make all research available free online The...
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Commission submits plan for keeping Europe at the forefront of nanotechnology
Brussels, 14 Jun 2005 The European Commission has proposed an action plan for nanosciences and nanotechnologies (N&N), which makes clear what the Commission and the Member States must do in...
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Commissioner Philippe Busquin: Biotechnologies in the European Research Area, EuropaBio General Assembly
Brussels, 24th June 2004 It is an honour for me to be with you today. I would like to take this opportunity to address three issues today that are of relevance to the biotechnology sector : The...
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Regions: the building blocks of a 'European Innovation Area', hears conference
Brussels, 09 Jun 2005 When relaunching the Lisbon agenda for competitiveness earlier this year, EU leaders acknowledged the central role that knowledge and innovation must play if Europe is to...
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Academics venture to bring in the money
Imperial staff have the best heads for business in UK academe, reports Letitia Hughes Academics at Imperial College London are the most business-minded in the UK, according to a survey in which their...
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New Year Honours
Peter Scott, a former editor of The Times Higher , was among a strong list of figures from higher education honoured by the Queen this new year. The vice-chancellor of Kingston University was...
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Ljubljana conference signals evolution of EU regional innovation policy
Brussels, 03 Jun 2005 Since its creation in 1996, the European Commission's Innovating Regions in Europe (IRE) network has built up a membership of some 250 European regions, helping many of them to...
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Scientists fear broken pledge
The Treasury is privately planning to claw back a significant proportion of the science funding that it committed in its much-vaunted ten-year review of science last summer, The Times Higher has...
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Proposed Council Decision on the signing of a Cooperation Agreement with Morocco on a Civil Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) (link)
Brussels, 22 May 2006 Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION on the signing of a Cooperation Agreement on a Civil Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) between the European Community and its Member...
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Commissioner Janez POTOCNIK: Bringing ideas to the market: ¡°Knowledge for Growth ¨C the role of EU research¡± EIRMA annual conference
Copenhagen May, 2005 Ladies and gentlemen, I welcome the opportunity to speak to you today on the subject of ¡°knowledge for growth¡± and on the role played by EU research. I wish to thank EIRMA very...
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Commission Vice-President G¨¹nter Verheugen: Promoting the Competitiveness of European Engineering, Orgalime 50th Anniversary
Brussels, 22nd April 2005 Orgalime 50th Anniversary Brussels, 22nd April 2005 Madam President, Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, Let me begin by first of all wishing you happy birthday on this the 50th...