Is it time to get fired up about atomic energy?
What do environmental scientists and physicists think about the mooted rebirth of nuclear power? The UK should expand the use of nuclear power in the coming decades, according to a straw poll of...
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Can renewables avert an energy crisis?
Brussels, 12 Jan 2006 The depression of the 1930s spawned the phrase, 'When America sneezes, the rest of the world catches cold'. Today, in a more interconnected and interdependent world, economic...
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OECD calls on governments to stimulate innovation in biomass
Brussels, 07 Sep 2004 A report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has urged governments to change their policies aimed at encouraging the development of biomass,...
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Technology platform to revive Europe's steel research
Brussels, 24 Jul 2003 The European Commission, the steel industry, steel workers and their unions are to work together to create a technology platform which will define a strategic agenda for...
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Don't get too excited
There was excitement this week when it seemed that science would receive a lot more loot than the ?1.25 billion announced as part of last week's spending review. Your correspondent was "invited to a...
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Eye on enterprise and global reach
Oxford and Wolverhampton represent opposite ends of the league tables. Claire Sanders and Tony Tysome visit them in search of common ground Get off the train at Oxford and the university's Said...
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Feeling curiously cramped lately? (2)
Valerie Atkinson imagines the response among the British top brass to calls for more support staff To: The President, Higher Education Funding Council for England From: Colonel Truemony, Vice-...
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CREST examines results of the 'open method of coordination' in the context of the Barcelona objective
Brussels, 15 Dec 2004 Analysis by CREST, the EU's scientific and technical research committee, of the suitability of the 'open method of coordination' as a tool for meeting the Barcelona objective of...
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Looking in the long shadows of life
The Contemporary Irish Novel
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Research Commissioner Janez POTOCNIK: Strengthening Competitiveness of the Enlarged EU 30th Annual Conference of the European International Business Academy
Ljubljana (Slovenia), 6 December 2004 Dear participants, Dear colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am very pleased to speak to you in this morning¡¯s plenary session on the challenge we face to...
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New report proposes 23 research infrastructures for construction during FP7
Brussels, 08 Apr 2005 A group of high level experts has presented the European Commission with a list of 23 examples of scientific infrastructure which it believes Europe will need in the coming...
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Jam spread too thinly to nourish academe
A review of the social sciences discovers that a funding imbalance is the main cause of problems besetting research and recruitment. Becky McCall reports A review of the social sciences has found a...
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Entrepreneurial innovation: networking key players and users
Brussels, 26 Oct 2004 A call for proposals for 'Entrepreneurial innovation: networking key players and users' has been launched by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6)....
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EuroChambres position on the new Research Framework Programme 2007-2013
Brussels, 06 Apr 2005 The Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) and the Framework Programme for Competitiveness and Innovation (CIP) must be complementary by essence. The synergies between the programmes...
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Fast lane for space technology innovation
Paris, 18 Mar 2004 A new ESA initiative got underway this week to speed up the turnaround time from idea to product. The aim is to support the fast introduction of breakthrough innovations in the...