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The impact of Science on Society and Economy is increasingly a priority in the current political and cultural climate, where the role of Scientific Research is conceived in the context of the Knowledge Economy paradigm and where the whole spectrum of scientific disciplinary domains - Humanities included - is called to make its own contribution to socio-economic development. This commitment invests not only knowledge production, but also knowledge diffusion - along all of its different communication channels - given that, within a Knowledge Economy paradigm, improving knowledge circulation constitutes clearly a crucial goal. This essay examines the EU policies on Scientific Information, their contextualisation within the current economic climate and their different strands of influence on research conduct. Special attention is paid to the process of knowledge transfer between academic research and industry, as compared with the traditional contrasting attitude of the Humanities research.