1.0Blog iSciencehttps://iscience.blogactiv.euiSciencehttps://iscience.blogactiv.eu/author/iscience/<a href="http://iscience.blogactiv.eu/files/2008/05/stancic.jpg" title="stancic.jpg"><img src="http://iscience.blogactiv.eu/files/2008/05/stancic.jpg" alt="stancic.jpg" align="left" height="277" width="325" /></a> 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 technology transfer. <a href="http://iscience.blogactiv.eu/files/2008/05/zoran_stancic.mp3" title="zoran_stancic.mp3">Listen to the full interview with Zoran Stancic ([mp3], 5:30 min) here.</a> <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/" title="Flash Player download" target="_blank">If you have problems listening to the file, please download the latest Flash Plugin here.</a>rich