Brussels, 01/10/2001 (Agence Europe) - On Monday, the European Commission published its "2001 European Innovation Scoreboard" assessing the strengths and weaknesses in the capacity for innovation of each Member State and the European Union as a whole. The scoreboard shows that all member States are improving, with some achieving world class performance, but the Union as a whole still lags behind the United States and Japan. The main weaknesses singled out by the Commission are the relatively...