The 2008 European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) published today shows the EU is making progress in its innovation performance preceding the financial crisis. In parallel to the EIS, the 2008 Science, Technology and Competitiveness report also published today provides for the first time an overview of progress from 2000 to 2006 in both EU R&D investment [...]

Sworn in today as President No. 44, Barack Hussein Obama (BHO) will be a main cause for climate change. After the intellectual and moral starvation of the Bush years we can not only expect a real change of climate in EU-US relations (warming up), but we will also finally see the day the US joins [...]

As a follow up to the ERRIN conference on “European Cluster Policy – What’s in it for the regions” that took place on 11 December 2008 at the Committee of the Regions in Brussels ( see my previous blog entry ) I did an interview in early January 2009 with Antoni Subira, who acted as [...]

I wish you all a happy, creative and innovative 2009 and that the force may be with you!
Back in October, without much fanfare, the European Commission has published an interesting survey on entrepreneurship in Higher Education Institutions. It confirms empirically what is commonplace by now, that the scope of entrepreneurial education in the EU is [...]