New journal aims to teach entrepreneurship
Brussels, 10 Dec 2002 A group of international professors are launching a journal to teach potential innovators how to be entrepreneurial. The International Journal of Entrepreneurship Education (...
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Partnerships aim to deliver e-health services for Europe
Brussels, 10 Dec 2002 A Commission funded collaboration project between the World Health Organisation (WHO), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) aims...
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70 Italian rectors resign over budget cuts Italy's 70 state universities rectors have carried out their threat to resign en masse over real-terms cuts in higher education in the 2003 budget. But...
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Today's news
Labour to give academics £1.5bn pay boost Academics are set for a three-year catch-up pay deal as a result of a £1.5 billion funding boost for universities to be unveiled next month. The cash...
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Latest research news
University funding inequality rules A study of higher education finance throughout the UK conducted by David Stiles of Cardiff Business School says that the funding system continues to discriminate...
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Work programmes for FP6 specific programmes 1 and 2 adopted
Brussels, 09 Dec 2002 The work programmes for the Sixth Framework Programme's specific programmes 'Focusing and integrating community research' and 'Structuring the European Research Area' were...
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Philippe Busquin: The European Union and the Research and Development Gap, Innovation Lecture 2002 Den Haag, 9 December 2002
Innovation Lecture 2002 Dear Mr Wijn, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is an honour and a pleasure to address you here, in the birthplace of Dutch democracy. It is also a difficult task to intervene after...
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The role of the patent in the innovation process
Brussels, 09 Dec 2002 'Innovation is only achieved when the innovation hits the market.' These were the words of Thomas Gering, responsible for setting up spin-offs developed in the Fraunhofer...
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eHealth for Europe
Paris, 09 Dec 2002 Sitting in a doctor's waiting room is not most people's idea of fun, so a recent conference in Bruges, Belgium, on Delivering eHealth across Europe, has good news for Europeans -...
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December 11 - new liftoff date for the 10-tonne Ariane 5
Paris, 09 Dec 2002 Arianespace has announced that the first launch of the new Ariane 10 tonne will take place on December 11. This date was confirmed following replacement of two external chill-down...
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Future astronaut diagnostics for the ISS bring advances in technology for telemedicine
Paris, 6 December 2002 On Thursday 5 December 2002 an ESA-coordinated demonstration in medical telediagnostics was carried out on board the French hospital ship Sirocco. In a project initiated by ESA...
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Addressing the science and society relationship will give the EU project a soul, says Prodi
Brussels, 09 Dec 2002 Commission President Romano Prodi has referred to the relationship between science and society as an issue which illustrates the EU's political and moral dimension. Speaking at...
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Europe plans world's biggest telescope
Brussels, 09 Dec 2002 Astronomers in Europe have agreed to join forces in a single project to design and build the largest optical telescope in the world. The telescope's main mirror will be up to...
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ESF conference on assessing the impact of genetically modified plants
Brussels, 09 Dec 2002 A European Science Foundation conference assessing the impact of genetically modified plants will investigate introgression from crops to wild plants and the consequences...
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International conference on systems biology: The logic of life
Brussels, 09 Dec 2002 The third international conference on systems biology will take place from 13 to 15 December in Stockholm, Sweden. It will bring together experimentalists and theorists from...