The rapid changes in technologies that are used for R&D have created new opportunities and needs for strategic management of IPRs and knowledge, especially when used in a collaborative context. The use of new ICT technologies is fundamentally altering the way R&D is done. This is leading to a...

R&D internationalization is an important phenomenon. It involves the global allocation of a precious resource for national economies. The reason for this Report is that there is a strong feeling, based on partial evidence, that Europe is not taking part as it should do in the global knowledge...

The EU's Sixth Framework R&D programme, covering 2002-2006, allocated more than u00802 billion to research that directly or indirectly addressed climate change. Another u00801.2 billion was spent on nuclear research. Reflecting the increasing urgency of the climate challenge as the...

Culture is playing a growing role in the European integration process. This shouldcome as no surprise as Europe has always been a cultural undertaking since its very beginning. Indeed, the attempt to bring together the peoples of the continent with their different habits, traditions and...

This Report includes the results of the PatVal-EU project Contract HPV2-CT-2001-00013 funded by the European Commission and conducted by six partners: Santu0092Anna School of Advanced Studies, Laboratory of Economics and Management (Pisa, Italy); SPRU, University of Sussex (Brighton, United...

Since the 1990s major new players have emerged in science and technology u0096 notably in Asia. The result is an increasingly multi-polar world where science, technology and patent applications are more widely distributed throughout the world. Figure 1 shows that almost 80 % of researchers work...

Nordic cooperation in R&D is part of a broader, long standing cooperation in the Nordic area. This area consists of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Finland, as well as the autonomous regions the Faroes Greenland and Aaland. The institutional set-up goes back to 1952 with the establishment of...