This document sets the scene and provides background information on 'Industrial Innovation for Open Strategic Autonomy", the main focus of the 9th edition of the European Conference on Corporate R&D and Innovation (CONCORDi 2023), as well as introduces scientific contributions that will be...

This paper contributes to the literature on corporate research and development (R&D) intensity decomposition by examining the effects of several parameters on R&D intensity. It draws on a longitudinal company-level micro-dataset, built using four editions of the EU R&D Scoreboard, and confirms...

Understanding the flow of knowledge between scientific research and policymaking is increasingly important. This study examines the influence of the EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard, a monitoring report produced for policy makers, researchers, and businesses since 2004. We analyse...

The paper aims to investigate regional participation in a new Portuguese Research and Innovation (R&I) programme (so-called 'Agendas for Industrialization') funded by the European Next Generation EU (NGEU). Using a probit model with sample selection and a novel dataset, we find that the...

Four years ago, as announced in the inaugural speech of President Von der Leyen before the European Parliament on 27 November 2019, the European Commission positioned sustainable development together with the digital agenda as the twin core elements of Europe's overall strategy for the present...

Based on the case study of Portugal, the present study aims to analyse the alignment of investments in the Portuguese "Recovery and Resilience Plan" with the Smart Specialisation Strategies priorities (2021-2027) of this territory, and then identify opportunities for potential synergies and...

Addressing complex challenges requires different tools, mindsets and approaches from those traditionally used, which contributed to create some of these challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, raising inequalities. Focusing on one is not sufficient and understanding their...

Four years ago, as announced in the inaugural speech of President Von der Leyen before the European Parliament on 27 November 2019, the European Commission positioned sustainable development together with the digital agenda as the twin core elements of Europe's overall strategy for the present...

Addressing complex challenges requires different tools, mindsets and approaches from those traditionally used, which contributed to create some of these challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, raising inequalities. Focusing on one is not sufficient and understanding their...

The paper investigates cohesion policy programmes' ability to define accurate policy outputs, in the form of targets. More specifically, the analysis explores the extent to which targets set by ERDF programmes to assess their performance are revised over time and seeks to identify specific...