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Health innovators get top prizes  

A number of medical technologies have been awarded a symbolic European innovation prize for their contribution to improved quality of life and technical progress in Europe. 


Vienna and Bratislava join forces in bid for EIT  [FR] [DE]

Slovakia has joined Austria's bid to host the proposed European Institute of Innovation and Technology in the hope that a twin-city headquarters initiative will convince ministers to give them the nomination.


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An EU 'Blue Card' for high-skilled immigrants? 

The EU is eager to attract high-skilled immigrants from outside its borders in order to fill its demographic, labour and skills gaps. (read more)

Knowledge and technology transfer  [FR] [DE]

EU firms are struggling to better exploit public-funded research and transform findings into patents and innovations that generate growth. (read more)

Energy Technology Research  [FR] [DE]

Speeding up research in low-carbon technologies is considered key to facing the twin challenges of climate change and energy-supply security but the EU is still lagging behind when it comes to big R&D budgets. (read more)

 
Analysis & Commentary
US needs a 'Science White House' 
David Baltimore, Chairman, American Association for the Advancement of Science
GM crops the only way to feed the world 
Paul Driessen, Institut économique Molinari
Why the internal market needs a fifth freedom 
Hans Martens & Fabian Zuleeg, European Policy Centre
EU R&D policy 'overambitious' 
Bruno van Pottelsberghe, Bruegel
 
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