Brussels, 07/03/2005 (Agence Europe) - Stressing the importance of research, innovation and the knowledge society for rekindling the Lisbon strategy, the Competitiveness Council defined the following priorities for European research: (1) concentration of effort on the objective set at the Barcelona Summit to devote a 3% share of GDP to research (including one third public investment); (2) optimising human capital to promote the emergence of a European research area that can attract...