The European Commission will publish a new 'Research and Innovation Plan' ahead of an autumn meeting of EU leaders in Brussels. The plan, first floated last year as the European Innovation Act, was originally to be published by spring 2010.
The document is currently being drafted by Innovation Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn and Industry Commissioner Antonio Tajani and will take a broad approach to boosting innovation.
Tajani explicitly dismissed suggestions that the six-month delay in publishing the plan resulted from difficulties between his directorate and Commission services working for Geoghegan-Quinn.
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