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The Commission of the European Union has published the European Innovation Scoreboard. Iceland gets high ranking when it comes to Innovation.

http://trendchart.cordis.lu/scoreboards/scoreboard2004/index.cfm

deCODE genetics has announced that it has been awarded a five-year, $23.9 million contract by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Under the contract, deCODE will apply its population approach and resources to discover genetic factors associated with susceptibility to certain infectious diseases and with vaccine response. deCODE will be working with scientists at the University of New Mexico (UNM) to conduct functional validation of biological pathways discovered through its genetics research. The National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR) will provide bioinformatics resources to make study information and results available to the scientific community.

More on deCODE web site:  (www.decode.com.)

The Science and Technology Policy Concil (STPC) has requested submissions from the science and technology community in Iceland on the formulation of a new  research programm commencing January 2005.

Iceland is ranking at the top of other European countries when measuring the competitiveness of countreis. This is from the WORLD COMPETITIVENESS SCOREBOARD 2004