APPENDIX 4
Acronyms
BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences
Research Council
CBI Confederation of British Industry
CRAFT Cooperative Research Action for
Technology
CREST* Scientific and Technical Research
Committee
CVCP Committee of Vice-Chancellors and
Principals
DG Directorate-General (of the Commission
of the European Communities)
DTI Department of Trade and Industry
ECU European Union unit of account: in
February 1997 £1 = 1.39 ECU, 1 ECU = £0.72
EMU Economic and Monetary Union
EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research Council
ESF* European Science Foundation
ESRC Economic and Social Research Council
ESTA* European Science and Technology
Assembly
EU European Union
FP5 Fifth Framework Programme
GDP Gross domestic product
IRDAC* Industrial Research and Development
Advisory Committee
JET Joint European Torus
JRC Joint Research Centre
MECU Million ECU
MEP Member of the European Parliament
NERC Natural Environment Research Council
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation
and Development
OST Office of Science and Technology
POST Parliamentary Office of Science
and Technology
PREST Policy Research in Engineering,
Science and Technology (University of Manchester)
RAEng Royal Academy of Engineering
RTD Research and technological development
SET Science, engineering and technology
SMEs Small and medium-sized enterprises
TMR Training and Mobility of Researchers
TSER Targeted Socio-Economic Research
UNICE Union of Industrial and Employers'
Confederations of Europe (French)
* See Appendix 6
