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A European Innovation Area looks increasingly likely, but few are clear about what it is
Over the past year, the EU’s R&D commissioner, Mariya Gabriel, has steadily ratcheted up her talk of a ‘European Innovation Area’, despite there being no official European Commission policy on such an initiative.
Beyond its name and Gabriel’s enthusiasm for it, nearly everything about the EIA remains a mystery.