Brussels, 22/01/2009 (Agence Europe) - The 2008 Science, Technology and Competitiveness report, published at the same time as the innovation scoreboard, provides an in-depth assessment of public and private R&D, technological performance and progress made between 2000 and 2006 in R&D spending in the EU, and the implementation of the European Research Area (ERA).
While, as a percentage of the working population, the EU has fewer researchers than its competitors, their number is rising twice...