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March 2010
CREST Report: Mutual learning on approaches to improve the excellence of research in Universities [ - 1.90Mb]

Report on Risk management in the procurement of innovation: Concepts and empirical evidence in the European Union [ - 2.20Mb].
August 2009
The fourth STATUS REPORT on European Technology Platforms is now published August 2009
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ETP Conference "Gearing research and innovation to address societal challenges" Brussels, 13 October 2009
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July 2009
European Conference on "Corporate R&D: An engine for growth, a challenge for European policy "CONCORD 2010" Seville (Spain) 3-4 March 2010.

European Commission to launch set of studies: developing knowledge for an evidence-based research policy
May 2009
European Commission expert group report on Metrics for Knowledge Transfer from Public Research Organisations in Europe (2009) [ - 904Kb]
February 2009
Expert Group on 'Diversified funding streams for university-based research : impact of external project-based research funding on financial management in universities' - Final report (2008). [ - 2.61 Mb]
Coming up with the first overview of external research funding across Europe, this report underlines the shared responsabilities of universities, national governments and research funders in enhancing the financial sustainability of university-based research which underpins the long-term competitiveness of European Research. In particular, the Expert Group recommends to foster the full costing implementation in Universities as well as to achieve a greater consistency among Research Funding conditions accross ERA.
May 2008
Coming soon on the investing in Research Website: a newsletter on European Technology Platforms (ETP)
The ETP newsletter will contain information of interest for the ETP community: developments in the internal organisation of platforms, successful projects and policy developments. It will be sent by email three times a year. Subscribe now via the Research Mailing Lists page!
10 April 2008
New Commission Recommendation on the management of intellectual property by universities and public research organisations

Philanthropy: new report of the Expert Group 2007

Public Procurement: new communication

IPR: brochure "why researchers should care about patents" [ 529 Kb]
4 April 2007
Commission Communication adopted on 4 April 2007: "Improving knowledge transfer between research institutions and industry across Europe: embracing open innovation - Implementing the Lisbon agenda" - COM(2007)449 - ([ - 192Kb] - [ - 204Kb] - [ - 198Kb])
Accompanying Commission staff working document : "Voluntary guidelines for universities and other research institutions to improve their links with industry across Europe" - SEC(2007)449 - ([ - 194Kb])