The literature review showed that co-publications and co-patents are relevant proxies for international collaboration. Though publications are more frequently used than patents, not at least because private research collaborations and technological R&D may have additional outputs than only...

This third Progress Report of the FP7 SME Inter-service Task Force includes an analysis of SME participation rates across the themes of the Cooperation Programme in the first two full years of the Framework Programme (FP7). Statistical information is provided on the number of SMEs and the...

Mobility is important not only for the career development of researchers, but also for scientific and economic performance as a whole. Researcher mobility has been low in many Member States and there are several obstacles for mobility especially for young researchers. At the same time Europe is...