relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1474/ title: Is Europe Evolving Toward an Integrated Research Area? creator: Chessa, Alessandro creator: Morescalchi, Andrea creator: Pammolli, Fabio creator: Penner, Orion creator: Petersen, Alexander M. creator: Riccaboni, Massimo subject: HB Economic Theory subject: LB2300 Higher Education description: Efforts toward European research and development (R&D) integration have a long history, intensifying with the Fifth Framework Programme (FP) in 1998 (1–3) and the launch of the European Research Area (ERA) initiative at the Lisbon European Council in 2000. A key component of the European Union (EU) strategy for innovation and growth (4, 5), the ERA aims to overcome national borders through directed funding, increased mobility, and streamlined innovation policies. publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science date: 2013-02 type: Article type: PeerReviewed format: application/pdf language: en rights: cc_by_nc identifier: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1474/1/1302.3126.pdf identifier: Chessa, Alessandro and Morescalchi, Andrea and Pammolli, Fabio and Penner, Orion and Petersen, Alexander M. and Riccaboni, Massimo Is Europe Evolving Toward an Integrated Research Area? Science, 339 (6120). pp. 650-651. ISSN 0036-8075 (2013) relation: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6120/650.full relation: 10.1126/science.1227970