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PDF Financing R&D and Innovation for Corporate Growth. What new evidence should policymakers know?
The Policy Brief addresses the results of a recent European Conference on the Financing R&D and Innovation (CONCORDi-2013: http://iri.jrc.ec.europa.eu/concord/2013/index.html). It… Show more presents recent empirical evidence on the topic and attempts to draw a number of policy-relevant messages to be brought to the attention of policymakers, as well as open questions requiring further research to address policy needs. Show less
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PDF Attracting foreign direct investment without weakening domestic firms
The present policy brief builds on a recent study designed to provide insights that support the need for a comprehensive… Show more policy approach which simultaneously aims at attracting foreign direct investments while strengthening the competitiveness of domestic firms. More in detail, the applied framework provides policy-makers with an instrument to understand when foreign investments are beneficial with respect to knowledge inflows and when they start to jeopardise the competitiveness of local firms. This has interesting policy implications in relation to various relevant aspects of the Europe 2020 agenda, such as the need to strengthen the competitiveness of European firms in the global economy, by, among other things, promoting and supporting their mobility within the Internal Market, their internationalisation, and their capacity to contribute to and benefit from international knowledge flows. Show less
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PDF The effect of innovative SMEs' growth to the structural renewal of the EU economy - A projection to the year 2020 -
This Policy Brief addresses the following question: To what extent the high-growth of current innovative R&D-intensive SMEs can drive the… Show more envisaged structural change of the EU economy towards high R&D intensive sectors? It aims to contribute to the debate about how to set the right priorities and find the most appropriate policy interventions to allow Europe to reach the 3% R&D intensity target and hence its growth and employment objectives. It first summarises stylised findings from the literature on the relevance of innovative companies for economic growth, then presents results from a recent JRC-IPTS study which go some way towards answering the question posed above, and concludes by outlining some of the contributions that enrich the policy debate. Show less
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PDF The "green impact" of the open innovation mode. Bridging knowledge sourcing and absorptive capacity for environmental innovations
This Policy Brief presents recent results on the impact that an open innovation mode has on European firms' environmental innovations.… Show more New evidence drawn from the CIS suggests that knowledge sourcing can increase the environmental innovation performance of firms. However, the way firms search for external knowledge and work to absorb it can lead them to different results, depending on whether they are involved in the adoption of an eco-innovation or the extension of their eco-innovation portfolio. Drawing on these results, policy implications for the European Research and Innovation Agenda are discussed. Show less
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PDF Mind the Science and Technology Skills Gap
This Policy Brief shows new evidence on the causes of the S&T skills gap in European regions. It highlights that… Show more the S&T skills gap is mainly due to shortages of capabilities that are crucial to support the innovation and growth of firms and the other actors of the regional system, including university and government. From these findings, ad hoc policy implications upon the development of innovation capabilities and skills for the European Research Strategy and Innovation agenda are proposed and future research issues identified. Show less
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PDF Bridging ideas with markets: the impact of training, marketing and design on innovation
This Policy Brief presents recent results on the impact of training, marketing and design expenditures on European firms' innovative performance.… Show more The new evidence drawn from recent JRC research suggests that these expenditures, in combination with R&D, are crucial drivers of innovation. Drawing on these results, policy implications for the European Research and Innovation Agenda are discussed and additional research questions identified. Show less
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PDF The growth of companies in the EU: the case for a more sophisticated research and innovation policy
This policy brief presents a literature review on the economics of research, innovation and competitiveness, focusing on the evidence available… Show more regarding the determinants for company creation and growth and the role played by Research, Development (R&D) and innovation. Furthermore, based on this, it draws a number of policy implications to design future research and innovation support instruments targeting innovative company growth in Europe. Show less
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PDF Is Smart Growth employment friendly?
This policy brief presents recent results from JRC-IPTS scientific analysis on the nexus between R&D driven innovation and employment. The… Show more new evidence drawn from this analysis confirms the labour friendly nature of R&D and points to some relevant policy implications to be considered when designing and implementing concrete measures under the new research and innovation agenda (Innovation Union flagship initiative of the Europe 2020 strategy). IRI is carrying on additional work on data gathering and analysis to further characterize the impact to keep into account additional factors. Show less