This post contains the full proceedings of the 2008 Rendez-vous de l’INRIA, which took place on 28 May in Brussels.
The proceedings are in separate audio files. In order to listen to the files, you will need the latest Flash plugin for your browser, which you can get here. Alternatively, you can right-click on the links [...]

Dans le cadre des “Rendez-vous de l’INRIA”, Laurent Kott, Directeur general d’INRIA Transfert, a bien voulu répondre à deux questions majeures sur le thème du transfert de technologie et de connaissance au sein de l’Union européenne.

En particulier, il souligne « comme l’a précédemment évoqué Pierre Vigier, qu’une des difficultés majeures [...]

Skills are key for meeting Europe’s technology challenge, says French MEP Catherine Trautmann, who gave the closing remarks at the Rendez-vous de l’INRIA event in Brussels on 28 May 2008.

Catherine Trautmann is a Member of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament. The French MEP serves as the Vice-President [...]

Malik Ghallab, Délégué Général à la Recherche et au Transfert pour l’Innovation de l’INRIA, donne ses commentaires sur les enjeux que rencontre son institution à Bruxelles et, plus largement, sur les défis de la politique de la recherche et de l’innovation au sein de l’Union européenne.
L’INRIA est largement connu et reconnu en termes de [...]

Pierre Vigier, Deputy Head of Unit “Innovation policy development” in the Commisson’s Enterprise Directorate-General comments on Europe’s shortcomings in technology transfer:
Technology transfer happens when two conditions are fulfilled: First, the existence of a genuine economic interest and secondly that the right conditions for legal protection exist. The first point depends of the actors of technology [...]

Why is Europe lagging so far behind the United States when it comes to technology transfer? How can European research better be turned into technological innovation? And what can the European Union do to foster this process?
Zoran Stancic, Deputy Director General in charge of sientific advances with the European Commission, answers Blogactiv’s questions on [...]

The head of Microsoft’s prestigious research facility in Cambridge comments on Europe’s strengths and weaknesses with respect to technology transfer:

I think in many areas, Europe is good, but we are not as good as our competitors in America or in China. In those countries, there is much more of an expectation that people doing research [...]

Michel Cosnard, the chairman of the French Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA), on the dialogue between big companies and research organisations:

Do you think that there is a gap between business and scientific community in Europe?
The situation regarding the field of information and communication science and technology (ICST) is very diverse between [...]

Throughout Europe, barriers to collaboration between the public and private sectors - in particular when it comes to sharing revenues and cost - persist. They prevent the exploitation of public-funded research and the transformation of findings into patents and innovations generating growth.
While science has become increasingly important for innovation and thus competitiveness, the European [...]

We’ve set up this blog to help make the 2008 ‘Rendez-vous de l’INRIA‘, on 28 May in Brussels, more interactive.
Not everyone can make it to the Rendez-vous de l’INRIA, but this blog allows you to join in the conversation on on the theme “Innovating for competitiveness in ICT: towards an EU framework for technology transfer”. [...]