Are the polar ice sheets collapsing?
The 1 October article highlights developments in aircraft and satellite techniques that have revolutionised our ability to survey ice sheets, providing accurate measurements of surface elevation, ice...
View ArticleEuropean human capital: the challenge for central and eastern Europe
The study, focusing on long-term economic and social trends in central and eastern European countries, is part of a project launched in 2006 - the Human Capital Index – that aims to define and measure...
View ArticleEU R&D policy 'overambitious'
In a policy brief published on 26 February 2008, Bruno van Pottelsberghe, a senior fellow at Bruegel, argues that common European R&D targets "make little economic sense in an EU where industrial...
View ArticleWhy the internal market needs a fifth freedom
[The following is reproduced with permission from the EPC.] Europe needs to move faster towards the knowledge society if it wishes to ensure the continued economic well-being of its people in light of...
View ArticleGM crops the only way to feed the world
"If we only use organic fertilisers and natural methods on arable land, we can only feed four billion people," Driessen's editorial quotes Borlaug as saying. Norman Borlaug is known as "the man who...
View ArticleThe new kids on the R&D block
Salole says there is evidence to suggest that the EU will miss its Lisbon Strategy target of investing 3% of its GDP in R&D by 2010. Moreover, the EU will be in third place globally behind the US...
View ArticleCreating effective cluster-building policies
Clusters are groups of firms and institutions that are located close to one another and have grown to a scale sufficient for developing specialised expertise, services, resources, suppliers and skills....
View ArticleR&D expenditures in Europe and the US
The European Union wants to raise the level of research and development (R&D) investment by the business sector as quickly as possible, states Uppenberg, in order to reach the Lisbon Strategy's...
View ArticleElectrifying cars: How three industries will evolve
The McKinsey team claims the genuine arrival of electric cars could be either a matter of mere years or still decades away. Much depends on whether concerns "over energy security, fossil fuel emissions...
View ArticleNanotechnology and the environment: A mismatch between claims and reality
A paper from the network’s Nanotechnology Working Group (NWG) evaluating the environmental, economic and health impacts of nanotechnology, recalls that the OECD suggests that nanotechnology offers...
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