A new EU strategy for international cooperation in research and innovation was unveiled recently. The EU accounts for just 7 % of the world population, but it is responsible for 24 % of world expenditure on research, 32 % of high-impact publications and 32 % of patent applications. International cooperation is seen as a vital step towards homing in on opportunities and further development.
... looking at ways to strengthen excellence in research and innovation by facilitating access to knowledge, people and markets across borders and across the globe. Maintaining a strong focus on firms and innovation, which require a new or different approach between academia and industry and between research and innovation, was also highlighted... integrating the international perspective more fully into 'regular' EU programmes would enhance cooperation with international collaboration, and strengthen the priorities of EU's core research and innovation programmes...
Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, European Commissioner responsible for Research, Innovation and Science... said: 'It makes perfect sense to cast the net wider and create and explore opportunities for research and innovation cooperation between Europe and the rest of the world. Not least because the societal challenges that we face today, such as climate change, the spread of infectious diseases or ensuring a steady supply of food and energy, are so big and so complex that we need the world's best scientists to tackle them together...
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Alexander J. Stein
Paul Allen. who has funded a lot of important research over the years - recently announced the funding of a new Aritificial Intelligence research center in Seattle. The Paul Allen Artificial Intelligence Institute will be headed by Oren Etzioni, formerly head of the University of Washington's Computer Science Department, where he was the Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Professor and Director of the Turing Center. The new AI center is a compliments to Paul Allen's $400 million neuroscience research center also in Seattle.