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Saying good bye
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Dear Friends of innovation, The adoption of the Innovation Union, Europe 2020 flagship, was a very important step to make Europe a better place for its citizens, to have more jobs and have improved lives. On the 4th of February European Counci...
Why do we need the Innovation Union?
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Boosting our research and innovation performance is the only way for Europe to support sustainable growth and create good and well-paid jobs that will withstand the pressures of globalization. Currently Europe has many strengths but is in danger of l...
What is Innovation Union?
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The Innovation Union, Europe 2020 flagship presented today, is key to achieving the goals of the Europe 2020 Strategy for a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy. It aims to improve conditions and access to finance for research and innovation i...
Social innovation in and for Europe
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Many organisations – charities, foundations, government agencies, businesses – are developing new ways to solve social problems, inside and outside the EU. Social innovation could take place in hospitals, social housing, education, in cities and...
What should Europe do to master new technologies?
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How will the industrial world look in 10 years time? Which products and technologies will we use to produce goods, to do business, to learn, to live and to communicate? We think that key enabling technologies – such as nanotechnology, micro and...
SEE Project – Sharing Experience Europe – Policy, Innovation, Design
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We have the pleasure of posting our first guest blog entry prepared by the SEE project (Sharing Experience Europe – Policy, Innovation, Design). The autumn EU innovation strategy is set to be fundamentally different from previous policies by includ...
Our video on innovation
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Reinventing Europe means moving from a knowledge society to an innovation society. For citizens, this means releasing the potential of a broad range of ideas to solve real problems, to find real solutions. Innovation often happens when people from di...
Do you want to ask a question direct to Commissioner Geoghegan Quinn?
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Maire Geoghegan Quinn is the European Commissioner responsible for research, science and innovation and in charge of drawing up a plan to create a “Innovation Union” putting research and innovation at the heart of society and economic gro...
Innovation through Public Procurement: is it really possible?
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Yes indeed! On 23 & 24 March, more than 200 people (mostly public procurers) attended a conference in Brussels to find what is being done. This follows the new political importance with José Manuel Barroso claiming: “It is time to harness the...
How should we measure innovation in Europe?
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As in previous years, the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) 2009 has just been released with the intention to benchmark the capacity of our economies in the EU-27 Member States to innovate. To do this, a set of 29 innovation-related indicators, po...
New OECD innovation strategy
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I am lucky enough to be part of an OECD expert group on innovation. This group contributes to the OECD innovation strategy which should get endorsed by Ministers in June this year. The OECD work on innovation is impressive. It reflects the shared und...
Innovation workshops in India
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Following the INNO-Views workshop on Emerging economies and Innovation (Brussels, 9-10/7/2009), the Commission/DG Enterprise and Industry and the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India organised jointly two workshops in India...
Can we measure public sector innovation?
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We tend to think of innovation as a private sector activity. The various work on measuring innovation – like the OECD Oslo Manual and Community Innovation Survey - is designed for innovations in the private sector. But there is increasing atte...
A Transatlantic Innovation Dialogue
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A recent initiative between the EU and the US is to start a Transatlantic Innovation Dialogue as part of the Transatlantic Economic Council. This Council works on better mutual recognition of existing regulation. But the new emphasis is on future Inn...
The European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009 has ended. Long live creativity and innovation!
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On the 16 and 17 December, the Swedish EU presidency formally closed the European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009 with a conference entitled Create Innovate Grow. However, many of the participants did not want to view the conference as an end...
Innovating Indicators for EU 2020
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We enjoyed reading this new e-brief by Ann Mettler at the Lisbon Council with a number of concrete suggestions for new indicators for the EU 2020 agenda; from input to output targets and to EU level goals backed-up by country specific targets. For I...
The complex governance of EU innovation policy: how can we improve it?
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EU innovation policy and implementation takes place in a complex cross-departmental and multi-level governance setting. The problems of the current situation include: - confusion due to the wide range of a) centrally managed EU funding programmes (FP...
Can public procurement stimulate innovation?
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Public procurement is worth some 16% of GDP but public procurers typically buy low cost, low risk solutions rather than innovative ones that would really improve public services. We brought together a group of experts and policy makers for a two day...
Innovation Unlimited – welcome back
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The Innovation Unlimited site was started by a panel of business innovators set up by DG Enterprise and Industry to develop new ideas for future European innovation policy. The panel felt that the comments and ideas of others would increase the relev...
Filippo Addarii
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You can find the contribution by Filippo Addarii (Euclid Network - European network of third sector leaders) attached here.
