RENEWABLE ENERGY RESEARCH WILL BENEFIT FROM EU COUNCIL DECISION ON EIT
June 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLRESEARCHERS developing innovative renewable energy technology and solutions to deal with climate change should benefit from a decision by the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to move ahead with controversial proposals to create a European Institute of Technology (EIT). Inspired by the success of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA, the European version will be virtual, based on formal networks of expert researchers - 'knowledge and innovation communities'. Academics have criticised the EIT for diverting potential ...
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