Vol. 2 - No. 1 - Winter 2005
| INHS Takes First Place Technology Innovation Prize at Emerging Technologies and Health Care Innovations Congress |
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Source: Inland Northwest Health Services SPOKANE, Wash, Dec. 20/PRNewswire -- Inland Northwest Health Services has been awarded first prize for most innovative use of technology to improve patient safety by judges at the Emerging Technologies and Healthcare Innovations Congress (TETHIC) that concluded December 1, 2004, in Washington, D.C. The TETHIC innovation prize recognizes the leadership role INHS has taken in building the technology framework for a TelePharmacy system that provides 24-hour pharmacy services at a reasonable cost to multiple rural hospitals and health care facilities. [More] |
| Stakeholder Consultation on the EU Framework Programme for Competitiveness and Innovation (CIP) |
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If adopted the framework Programme for Competitiveness and Innovation (CIP) would be an instrument to support competitiveness and innovation in the single market. It would bring together a number of existing community programmes in the very fields that have been identified as most critical to boosting European productivity growth. These programmes are: [More] |
| Brazil Adopts Innovation Law |
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Source: SciDev.Net [RIO DE JANEIRO] The Brazilian president Luiz Inácio 'Lula' da Silva took steps earlier this month to remove some of the barriers that make it difficult for public sector researchers and private companies to collaborate. Legislation to this effect, signed by the president on 2 December, is seen as an attempt to stimulate research innovation. [More] |
| Innovation Survey--European Innovation Holding Steady |
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The latest European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) confirms that Europe is maintaining its innovation levels – with the Nordic countries holding on to their mantle as world leaders. However, the EU continues to lose ground in the innovation stakes against some of its major competitors. Finland and Sweden have reaffirmed their status as Europe’s most innovative countries, outperforming the USA and Japan on several important indicators, the annual EIS reveals. Germany and Denmark also scored well above the European average. The Netherlands, Ireland and France continue to move ahead but their growth is slowing down. [More] |
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