Brussels, 20/01/2005 (Agence Europe) - Europe's research and development in Information Society Technologies (IST) makes a vital contribution to efforts to become the world's most competitive knowledge economy. But Europe must step up this investment if it is to achieve “critical mass” in these technologies. So says a report by a high-level panel of independent experts chaired by Professor J.M. Gago, former Portuguese Science Minister and one of the authors of the Lisbon Strategy,...