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Editorial
Nature 441, 2 (4 May 2006) | doi:10.1038/441002a; Published online 3 May 2006
Small first step
The European Union has identified targets for industrial research and development (R&D) as critical to its future, but is manifestly failing to meet them. Member states agreed at a 2000 summit in Lisbon to boost total R&D spending to 3% of gross domestic product by 2010 — an unrealistic target that the continent will not even begin to move towards unless it sharply boosts private-sector investment.
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