Synthesis report. Sectoral Innovation Watch 2008-2011
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Europe is currently facing the reality of a new international multipolar context in which the rules of the game are being reset. The industrial and innovation policies that have traditionally ruled international competitiveness are rapidly changing. Many nations strong in the international arena master not only the policies and strategies for cost-driven competition but also the craft of innovation in traditional and in selected high-tech sectors. In concordance with the new landscape in the international industrial dynamics arena, new rationales for the rate and direction of innovation policy in Europe are now being defined. The core of the Europe 2020 Strategy1 agreed by Member States at the June 2010 European Council is to underpin a smart, sustainable and inclusive growth in Europe. In contrast with the Lisbon Strategy core concept2, the tone and intentionality of the new European strategy redefines the main lines of policy and intervention with broader humanistic rationales. While aiming to tackle lasting and pervasive global problems on issues like climate change, health, high-quality and affordable food, energy supply, the scarcity of resources and the impact of demographic changes, the new strategy has the potential to unleash new multipliers of economic activity that will help differentiate Europe in the international trade landscape. Here the redefinition of innovation policy towards the great human challenges beyond international competitiveness is likely to play a major role.
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TNO Identifier
539855
Publisher
European Commission
Collation
101 p.
Place of publication
Brussels
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