Brussels, 09/06/2011 (Agence Europe) - EU performance in innovation has to be greatly improved in a number of areas: so might the first European Commission report on the competitiveness of the Union of Innovation be summarised, which was published on Thursday 9 June and presented to the press by Research, Innovation and Science Commissioner Maire Geoghegan-Quinn. The report assesses the strengths and the weaknesses of national research and innovation systems and provides factual information...