Research and high-tech activities are highly concentrated in the core regions of the EU. Approximately half of total research expenditure goes to 30 regions out of 254. Disparities between regions ...
FP7 is divided into so-called Specific Programmes, constituting five major building blocks:
The core of FP7 is the Cooperation programme (32,413 million euro 2007-2013). It fosters collaborative...
Ten years after the launch of the Lisbon strategy in 2000, the agenda for structural reforms in Europe will be revised to make it fit for the post-2010 period. Research policy is expected to be a k...
It is a good time to assess progress made and discuss future orientations on one of its core elements – the European Research Area (ERA). In a changing world characterised by the accelerating glo...
After a brief description of what Fully-Fledged Foresight is, and how it builds on and goes beyond traditional futures and long-term forecasting work; this blog links to Foresight resources and ...
It is common, in a book of this kind, to begin with a detailed and explicit definition of the subject- the Delphi technique. However, if we were to attempt this, the reader would no doubt encounter...