Better together

It is sometimes too easy to forget just how far Pan-EU research has come...

Thinking big by thinking small

It’s a paradox that while Europe’s scientific output is very solid, the continent lags behind the United States and Japan when it comes to getting economic traction from that scientific engine. The US, for example, earns three times more than Europe in overseas revenues from licences and patents...

Plugging in to Europe’s innovation grid

In the summer of 2011, I was doing a PhD on the social and technological aspects of smart grid technology at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona. Smart grids are electricity networks that gather data on their dynamics through the chain from generation to consumer, with the aim of becoming more reliable, efficient and sustainable...

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