European community developments

Michael Llewellyn

European Management Journal, 1987, vol. 5, issue 2, 139-145

Abstract: The spokesman's service at the Commission in Brussels recently issued a document entitled 'THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY RESEARCH PRO-GRAMME-The Facts', which seeks to explain the Community's R&D programme for 1987-91. The Commission explains that the programme is not expensive if compared with the 1984-87 programme, and represents the minimum necessary to reach any achievement. We are reminded that such spending is dwarfed by the US and Japan. It is also pointed out that community administrators manage four times the value of national research programmes. Furthermore, quotas do not operate: projects are selected on merit by independent experts. The document goes on to list ten scientific success stories from Community R&D which contain interesting industrial spin-offs, under the previous framework programme. These are: the optical computer, controlled thermo-nuclear fusion, biotechnology applied to plants, permanent supermagnets, the 200 current ESPRIT (information technology) projects, a flue gas desulphurisation process (the Mark XIIIA), a geo-thermal energy project in Cornwall, a development in the search for a vaccine against sleeping sickness, the BRITE programme to use lasers to weld sheet metal, and research on radioactive waste storage.

Date: 1987
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