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	<title type="text">English Blogactiv Posts - EU Blog Platform &#187; Innovation and Growth</title>
	<subtitle type="text">Europeans challenge Europe</subtitle>

	<updated>2010-03-22T07:48:00Z</updated>
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			<name><![CDATA[Stanley Crossick]]></name>
                                         <uri>http://english.blogactiv.eu</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Technology: the world at China’s feet]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-03-21T20:16:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-03-21T20:16:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Keith Bradsher’s article in the New York Times of 17 March is breath-taking but worrying for the West. 
It confirms the incredible drive by China to lead in all relevant technological developments. Just imagine that China may produce this year two-thirds of the global output of PV panels, despite Europe’s long start.   And last, and most [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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			<name><![CDATA[EUREKA]]></name>
                                         <uri>http://english.blogactiv.eu</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Comments from VINNOVA on the Public consultation on Community Innovation Policy]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-03-19T12:41:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-03-19T12:41:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[VINNOVA, the main funding agency for EUREKA projects companies and  research organizations wishing to participate in EUREKA projects, welcomes and  supports the efforts to discuss and further develop Community innovation  policies.  VINNOVA also agrees with the general  description of the importance of innovation for long term sustainable  growth and [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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			<name><![CDATA[David]]></name>
                                         <uri>http://english.blogactiv.eu</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[EUROPE 2020 #2    Blackmail by the Energy Cartel remains Europe’s major threat. Without its own Energy Community, Europe will not have real growth or a Foreign Policy!]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-03-18T02:51:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-03-18T02:51:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The world is heading into troubled waters. Every feeling person senses it. Yet the Commission&#8217;s paper curiously called EUROPE 2020 A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth seems to be living in a world of its own. Its authors live in a see-no-evil, hear-no-evil world. They sense no dangers.
It just wants to get over [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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			<name><![CDATA[garyfinnegan]]></name>
                                         <uri>http://english.blogactiv.eu</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[MGQ ♥ Tajani 4EVA]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-03-17T19:53:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-03-17T19:53:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Commissioners for Innovation and Industry have been saying the kindest of things about one another (through gritted teeth)
Was it just me or were Commissioner Maire Geogeghan-Quinn and Antonio Tajani overdoing the mutual appreciation at their joint press conference on Wednesday?
They each seemed at great pains to say how well they get on and how [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name><![CDATA[Letters to the EurActiv editor]]></name>
                                         <uri>http://english.blogactiv.eu</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Frustrations setting up business in Belgium]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-03-17T16:06:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-03-17T16:06:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Sir,
Regarding &#8216;Small firms slam &#8216;deceptive&#8217; EU accounting plans&#8216;:
I am British and wanted to come and start a business in Belgium as my daughter is at university there studying law. But when I looked into it all, it is so expensive to set up as heavy capital is required. Lawyers and accountants fees are also very [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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			<name><![CDATA[Ann Mettler]]></name>
                                         <uri>http://english.blogactiv.eu</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Wikinomics in Europe: Towards an i-society]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-03-12T15:56:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-03-12T15:56:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Last week, the Lisbon  Council hosted one of my favourite events ever, The 2010 Innovation Summit. It was what an event on innovation should be: open to new ideas, collaborative and, well, simply different. Intellectually, the discussions were underpinned by a new e-brief we launched at the occasion, entitled Wikinomics and the Era of Openness: [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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			<name><![CDATA[Bromotion]]></name>
                                         <uri>http://english.blogactiv.eu</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[La Baule WIC 2010 – just another formal engagement or merely an alibi to rethink]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-03-09T19:54:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-03-09T19:54:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I was invited to have a contribution – sounds like make a donation, but it isn’t the case - and comment some topics in the agenda of this European investment forum. Well, I’m not very sure of attending the event, but took the opportunity to express some thoughts, partially reproduce below. Somehow it seemed [...]
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			<name><![CDATA[Letters to the EurActiv editor]]></name>
                                         <uri>http://english.blogactiv.eu</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Researchers unhappy with EU funding administrative burden]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-03-09T15:42:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-03-09T15:42:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Sir,
Many researchers across Europe are unhappy with the administrative burden of European research funding. The Framework Programme, as the biggest part of this funding, is far from easy to use despite many efforts at simplification.
Many stakeholders, including the European Commission, are working on simplifying the participation rules. That’s certainly promising. However, what is missing so [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name><![CDATA[I-Blogger]]></name>
                                         <uri>http://english.blogactiv.eu</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[I-mpressions from the Lisbon Council 2010 Innovation Summit]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-03-08T13:01:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-03-08T13:01:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[At her speech to the Lisbon Council’s 2010 Innovation Summit last week, the EU’s highly charismatic and enthusiastic Chief Innovation Officer, Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn laid out her vision of transforming Europe into an “I-conomy”, connecting and speeding up innovation all along the whole policy chain from research to retail, building a functional single market for [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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			<name><![CDATA[healthblogger]]></name>
                                         <uri>http://english.blogactiv.eu</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Hospital as Nexus of Innovation]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-03-04T18:33:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-03-04T18:33:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The ERRIN innovation event, The Hospital of the Future, 2 March 2010, explored the future of the hospital as a recipient of financially and environmentally sustainable investment.
The key outcome for me, as one of the moderators of the event, was the emerging view of the hospital as a major innovator within their local/regional economies.
Hospitals are [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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