BioGenetics Capital’s decision to invest in the CRO appears to be a shrewd one especially considering the global CRO market is estimated to be at $10 billion (€8.4 billion) and growing at an annual rate of 14 to 16 per cent. BioGenetics Capital announced that it has closed a $5.5 million financing round with Contract… » read more
Archives for Innovation and Growth
New face of European research passes EP hearing with esprit
January 23, 2010
Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, the new Commissioner responsible for research, innovation and science, was not prominently mentioned in the media reports on the European Parliament hearings (except perhaps in her home country Ireland). However, she did leave a positive “can do” impression and did not face any difficulties in passing the European Parliament’s assessment of the Barroso… » read more
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commission, English, EU Priorities and Opinion, EU Treaty & Institutions, hearing, Innovation and Growth |
A new EU management generation – collaboration vs. turf
January 22, 2010
I apologise for my long absence from this blog. Recently I have, of course, followed the Commission hearings, at least for those of the new Commissioners that are most interesting from a regional research and innovation viewpoint. Clearly, this was a great moment for the European Parliament and for European democracy. One MEP quoted by… » read more
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energy efficiency, Energy Supply, English, EU Priorities and Opinion, EU programmes, Innovation and Growth, regional development, Research, Structural Funds |
The End of the Web as We Know It?
December 9, 2009
We know it as a platform where: website or other on-line source (any web site or media store like iTunes), media (e.g. MP3), local software or client (e.g. Media Player) and device (PC, Mac, Phone, Flash Drive, Netbook …) are not coupled with each other. Many competing companies are providing products or services for each… » read more
Sir, Regarding ‘EU innovation ‘manifesto’ turns spotlight on funding and skills‘: The idea of expanding the ’scale and ambition’ of the European Union’s structural funds towards strengthening investment in research and knowledge is in itself excellent and necessary. However, one must be careful to make sure that the structural funds are invested directly in science… » read more
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English, EU Priorities and Opinion, Innovation and Growth, Social Europe |
EU 2020 Consultation Marks Brussels’ Return to Policy and Substance
November 24, 2009
Today, the European Commission is launching a consultation on the EU 2020 strategy, the successor to the Lisbon Agenda. With Lisbon’s deadline in the year 2010 quickly approaching, there is now a unique opportunity to review and improve this vital policy programme and lay a strong foundation for the new EU 2020 strategy. To be… » read more
We introduce Mr. Innovation – Ivan Kocis
November 23, 2009
Ladies and gentlemen, a short time ago, Mr. Ivan Kocis joined our group on Facebook. Very openly, it is appropriate to call him „Mr. Innovation“. Let us provide some basic facts about his career background. This time, Mr. Ivan Kocis is the President and Chairman of the Advisory Board of Geothermal Anywhere Ltd. – the… » read more
MaxCaps Research Project launched
November 16, 2009
MaxCaps Research Project has been launched as a project within the European Medea+ (a EUREKA cluster) research programme. The research project aims at developing methods to integrate capacitors on silicon chips, thereby cutting the number of discrete capacitors at present mounted on printed circuit boards (PCB) by nearly 30 per cent. Designers can, by integrating… » read more
A “big idea” for Europe
November 13, 2009
As we entered the final quarter of a tumultuous 2009 last month, European Union leaders and stakeholders debated the next “big idea” at an event organized by Friends of Europe. Given these economically and politically challenging times, it is hardly surprising that we are asking the what, why, where, and how of Europe’s future. For… » read more
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English, EU Priorities and Opinion, Innovation and Growth, Public Affairs |
EU Consumer Policy: Economic Citizenship and User-Focused Markets
November 5, 2009
This was the name of a policy seminar that the Lisbon Council hosted today. We were blessed to have with us Commissioner Kuneva, who never fails to impress, and Mario Monti, who is such a monumental figure in his own right. I think the power and potential of consumer policy is vastly overlooked and […]
Mountaineer full-chain pilot
October 30, 2009
While I prefer to focus on CCS demonstration plants, this full-chain pilot project at the Mountaineer power plant in West Virginia catches my attention, not least because two European companies Alstom and RWE are also involved.
From socialisation of debt to socialisation of knowledge
October 28, 2009
I would like to share this inspiring and thought-provoking presentation with you. What’s it about? Prof Luc Soete, Director UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, Member DG Research Expert Group sees a new trend and challenge to technology and innovation policy: from the political obsession with technological competitiveness to a new global view in which access, diffusion and effective… » read more
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English, EU, EU Priorities and Opinion, Innovation and Growth |
Join the ERRIN Mind Forum
October 27, 2009
Dear friends of innovation. You are kindly invited to join our ERRIN Mind Forum on 18 November 2009 at VLEVA (Liaison Agency Flanders Europe), Kortenberglaan 71, B-1000 Brussels. Background to the event: Europe’s economy is slowly coming out of troubled waters and what some have described as ‘a perfect storm’. However, it will not be… » read more
Dear all. I would like to share this article with you that I recently wrote for ‘Projects Magazine’. Your comments are welcome. Lisbon and the reality check in the regions The Lisbon agenda, i.e. the goal set at the Lisbon Spring Council in 2000 to transform the EU into the world’s most competitive economy by… » read more
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English, EU, EU Priorities and Opinion, Innovation and Growth |
Regulators wrapping themselves in knots
October 13, 2009
Lawmakers will soon have so many issues to consider that they will be unable to function A new report by a panel of innovation experts offers a useful insight into the thinking that will shape next year’s European Innovation Act. It covers financing, collaboration and it attempts to broaden the definition of innovation. It is… » read more
Survived another edition of the Open Days, the annual must-be-part-of-it carnival of the regional policy community in Brussels, where hordes of regional delegates descend on Brussels in search of data, information, knowledge and wisdom and for a bit of socialising with the likeminded. While EU funding is the driver, the ultimate gain is knowledge. „We… » read more
Eight ideas behind China’s success
October 7, 2009
Professor Zhang Wei-Wei, in an op-ed published in the New York Times on 30 September, on the eve of the 60th anniversary celebrations, offers eight ideas which have enabled China to change within one generation from a poverty-stricken country to one of the world’s largest economies. Zhang, of the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International… » read more
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China, English, Enlargement and Neighbours, Innovation and Growth, Public Affairs |
With the Lisbon Treaty finally in the end game after the Irish Yes vote last week, and José Manuel Barroso embarking on a second term as European Commission president, it will be more important than ever before to position the EU’s executive arm as an agent of change, a driver of innovation, and a catalyst… » read more
Geothermal Europe: Geothermie Unterhaching
October 6, 2009
The next project in the cycle “Geothermal Europe” is complex solution in Unterhaching in Germany – once named as “geothermal model for communities” by Mr. Otto Schily, former German Minister of Interior. Let’s summarize basic facts about Unterhaching project: it exploits the most effective geothermal well in Germany with depth of more than 3.300 meters… » read more
John Lund: Geothermal energy is very competitive
September 30, 2009
Geothermal energy is currently at least understood type of renewable energy sources, says Mr. John Lund in an interview with Geothermania blog. At the same time, it is still waiting to be more researched, especially if we talk about the new geothermal segment called Hot dry rock. Mr. Lund declares that EGS is a long-term… » read more
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27517, Climate change, Energy Supply, English, Innovation and Growth |