Europe's arrested development

Article Abstract:

Major companies in Europe have started spending on research and development (R&D), indicating that they are responding to the challenges posed by their global competitors. The continuing fragmentation of the European continents 'common market' and the lack of an innovation engine in any comparable to California's Silicon Valley have contributed to Europe's hitherto poor track record in information and communications technology, the sector that is the most research intensive in today's R&D field.

Europe, Research grants, Research funding

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The technology trap

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US university innovation machine that gives universities the patent rights to technologies is proved by the industrial corporate as problematic as for the first time since 1980, there is a growing movement to overhaul the way in which technology transfer works in the US. Experts agree that university technology transfer is overly focused on the life sciences and hence has had a negative effect on university-industry collaborative models.

United States, Government domestic functions, Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, Colleges and universities, Public Colleges, Science and technology policy, Public universities and colleges, Technology transfer

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Toyota's production line leads from lab to road

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Toyota's central research and development laboratories based in a collection of unimposing, low-rise technology between a highway and a maglev railway has mastered the art of transferring scientific acumen into its cars. The central lab spends over 1% of Toyota's 770- billion Yen worth its annual research and development budget.

Motor vehicles and car bodies, Japan, Automobile industry, Toyota Industries Corp.

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