The goal of the project BIOPOLIS has been to gather all available data on public biotechnology R&D funding and policy performance in 32 European countries. From these data was drawn a realistic picture for each country, corresponding to the period 2002-2005. The three contracting teams covered...

The 2007 "Key Figures on Science, Technology and Innovation. Towards a European Research Area" takes a detailed look at the most important aspects of EU investment and performance in the knowledge-based economy, and in this regard benchmarks the EU and its Member States against their main...

The review tackles governance, that is a term and process that cuts across a broad variety of policy fields and actors. Its main aim is to identify problems of governance as well as best practices that can be made fruitful for current and future policies and practices, with focus on Europe while...

In relation to innovation research, the 20 projects selected for this review reflect the current contribution to the field of insights from evolutionary economics, modern firm theories, institutional economics and the heuristics of innovation systems. Although the findings and perspectives from...

This Meeting Summary and Statement is prepared as an input from the different stakeholders present to the on-going debate on the role of marine sciences and technologies in economic, social and environmental development (in the context of Lisbon and Gothenburg Agendas, etc) and as a cornerstone...

This report presents a strategy to create an Innovative Europe. Achieving this requires a combination of a market for innovative goods and services, focussed resources, new financial structures and mobility of people, money and organisations. Together these constitute a paradigm shift going well...

Radiation dosimetry has been and remains a key element of successive Euratom research programmes and has contributed greatly to the effective development and application of radiation protection standards in Europe and beyond. Research specifically dedicated to dosimetry and carried out in...

This report arises from intensive discussions at an innovative two-day 'Gover'Science' Seminar organised by the Governance and Scientific Advice Unit of DG RTD in November 2005. The Seminar focused on a variety of complex and hotly contested questions that are central to current efforts to move...