Fisheries, including aquaculture, provide a vital source of food, employment, recreation, trade and economic well-being for people throughout the European Union. Decisions under the Common Fisheries Policy are taken on the basis of scientific advice provided by fisheries advisory bodies such as...

R&D internationalization is an important phenomenon. It involves the global allocation of a precious resource for national economies. The reason for this Report is that there is a strong feeling, based on partial evidence, that Europe is not taking part as it should do in the global knowledge...

Nordic cooperation in R&D is part of a broader, long standing cooperation in the Nordic area. This area consists of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Finland, as well as the autonomous regions the Faroes Greenland and Aaland. The institutional set-up goes back to 1952 with the establishment of...