The European Commission has called on European leaders, who will devote part of their discussion over dinner in Sofia on Wednesday 16 May to innovation, to provide it with clear guidance on the future of research in Europe post-2020.
Taking as its starting point that “the EU is being outpaced by China and the United States in levels of investments in the technologies that are set to dominate in the future”, the Commission highlights a number of areas for action, such as creating a...