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19th Mar 2024

Innovation

  • Innovation - everyone agrees it is needed. But money, type of research, and who does it, are all thorny issues (Photo: Argonne National Laboratory)

As the EU continues to struggle with the effects of the economic crisis, the importance of investing in innovation and research is increasingly been emphasized. But how much money is enough and where should it be spent? EUobserver investigates.

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