La Commission europeenne vient d'approuver une proposition de programme strategique pour l'innovation et le transfert de technologie, appele SPRINT (Strategic Programme for Innovation and Technology Transfer) qui portera sur une periode de deux ans, sera dote d'un budget de 11 millions d'Ecus et permettra de poursuivre et de renforcer les actions entreprises dans le cadre du "plan de developpement transnational de l'infrastructure d'assitance a l'innovation et au transfert des technologies (Decision du Conseil 83'624/CEE), plan experimental ayant connu un vif succes mais qui expire fin 1986.
The European Commission has just approved a proposal for a Strategic Programme for Innovation and Technology Transfer, SPRINT, which initially will cover a two-year period with a budget of 11 million Ecus and provide for the continuation and intensification of actions under the "Plan for the transnational development of the supporting infrastructure for innovation and technology transfer". This plan, adopted in 1983, is an experimental plan which has been very successful but which expires at the end of 1986.