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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… » read more
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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… » read more
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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… » read more
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May 22, 2008
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… » read more
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