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Research and Innovation
[from L 294/50 EN 29.10.2002 Official Journal of the European Communities]
The overall aim is to make a tangible improvement in Europes innovation performance, in the short, medium and long term, by stimulating a better integration between research and innovation, and by working towards a more coherent and innovation-friendly policy and regulatory environment across the European Union.
The total budget is: 290
millions euro.
Support Schemes
Activities:
| Networking the players and users |
The European networks involved in this activity will, among other things, have the aim of encouraging interfaces between research and industry and between business and funding. The activities will concern the encouragement and validation of local and regional initiatives to promote the creation and development of innovative businesses; the involvement of users in the innovation process; exchanges of good practice and the implementation of transnational cooperation involving universities, incubators, risk capital funds, etc.; and the optimisation of practices with regard to communication, training, transfer and sharing of knowledge between universities, businesses and the financial world.
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| Encuraging trans-regional co-operation
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The regional level is the most appropriate for putting in place innovation strategies and programmes involving the main local players. The purpose of this activity, to be carried out in close cooperation with activities in the context of regional policy and the Structural Funds, will be:
to promote exchanges of information on specific innovation-related themes;
facilitate transfers of good practice and put in place innovation strategies in the regions in countries due to join the EU
encourage the carrying out at regional and trans-regional level of schemes or measures that have proved successful at European level.
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| New tools and approaches concerning technological innovation
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The purpose of these activities is to experiment with new innovation concepts and methods addressing in particular critical points in the innovation process. These activities will concern:
experimenting on a European scale with new concepts applied in a national or regional environment to promote innovation and the setting-up of innovative businesses;
analysis of the potential for reproducing and/or exploiting proven methods, tools or results in new contexts
putting into place integrated platforms making it possible to input and disseminate knowledge and know-how concerning the socio-technical processes of innovation.
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Putting services in place and consolidating them
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The establishment of the European Research Area and the gradual integration of innovation systems in Europe will require a supply of information and services transcending the existing national fragmentation. The activities to be carried out will concern:
the CORDIS research and innovation information service, which will be supplemented by other media in order to reach the various target populations;
the network of innovation relay centres, the geographical coverage of which will continue to be extended, and which will be supplemented by instruments to encourage the transnational transfer of knowledge and technologies
information and support services in fields such as intellectual or industrial property and access to innovation funding.
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Economic and technological intelligence
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In the knowledge-based economy, economic and technological intelligence is a vital component of competitive research and innovation strategies. The activities to be carried out will centre on the innovation players: SMEs, researcher-entrepreneurs and investors. They will mainly involve intermediaries working with/for these players as well as organisations with economic and technological intelligence expertise. They will concentrate on specific scientific and technological themes or industrial sectors and may concern:
innovation promotion in SMEs, in particular by means of activities aimed at facilitating their participation in the Community research programmes;
support for activities concerning the gathering, analysis and dissemination of information on scientific and technological developments, applications and markets which may be of assistance to the stakeholders and
identification and dissemination of best practice with regard to economic and technological intelligence.
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Analysing innovation in EU-funded research projects
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The research and innovation activities carried out in the context of Community projects, in particular within the networks of excellence and the integrated projects, represent a plentiful source of information about obstacles to innovation and the practices to be deployed in order to overcome them. The ex-post analysis of these practices will concern:
the gathering and analysis of information on measures taken to promote innovation in Community projects, as well as the obstacles encountered and the actions needed to remove them;
the comparison of experience derived from Community projects with the lessons learnt from other national or intergovernmental programmes and the validation of the information obtained and
the active dissemination of this information among businesses and other participants in the generation and exploitation of knowledge.
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Work Program
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