Which priorities for national research policies post 2010

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The new partnership between MS and the COM in ERA under the Lisbon Treaty calls for a better coordination of integrated strategies among the Member States and with the Commission to enhance the transformation towards higher degrees of knowledge intensity of the society. Already now the transborder interactions in research and innovation are so intensive that autonomous national policies are neither possible nor desirable. Coordinated policy approaches are indispensable. They have to rely on the people in MS. ERA offers a chance to extend the scope and the efficiency of well defined and interrelated national research and innovation policies. A centrally elaborated master plan, even though based on a broad involvement of stakeholders, will not attain the political power required for the necessary structural changes to cope with the grand challenges due to lack of ownership. We continue to live in a multi-polar Europe where every country has it specificities and wants to bring its impact

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