In the context of the decarbonisation of the European energy system and achieving the long-term climate change mitigation objectives, this study assesses the impact of materials on the competitiveness of the EU's clean energy technology industry, taking into account several factors such as...

In the context of the decarbonisation of the European energy system and achieving the long-term climate change mitigation objectives, this study assesses the impact of materials on the competitiveness of the EU's clean energy technology industry, taking into account several factors such as...

The study on the "influence of research on the competitiveness of the security industry in EU and the US" was carried out during a EU fellowship in Washington, DC's George Mason University. The fellow has shared her time between the George Mason University and the National Institute of Standards...

Standards are very important as they provide requirements, specifications, guidelines or characteristics that can be used consistently to ensure that materials, products, processes and services are fit for their purpose. They contribute to remove technical barriers to trade, leading to new...

Standards are very important as they provide requirements, specifications, guidelines or characteristics that can be used consistently to ensure that materials, products, processes and services are fit for their purpose. They contribute to remove technical barriers to trade, leading to new...

Standards are very important as they provide requirements, specifications, guidelines or characteristics that can be used consistently to ensure that materials, products, processes and services are fit for their purpose. They contribute to remove technical barriers to trade, leading to new...

The objective of this Policy Brief is to analyse the status of private R&D investment in Italy based on recent evidence and to indicate possible policy actions to boost private R&D investment. For our analysis, we rely on microdata from an unbalanced 10 years' panel data-set (2004-2013), built...

To measure the different dimensions of competitiveness at the regional level, the European Commission has developed the Regional Competitiveness Index - RCI. The RCI was published in 2010 and this is the 2013 edition, which includes most recent data and implements improvements and refinements....

The joint project between DG Joint Research Centre and DG Regional Policy on the construction of the EU Regional Competitiveness Index (RCI) aims at producing a composite indicator which measures the competitiveness of European regions at the NUTS 2 level for all EU Member States. The concept of...

This report is one of a series resulting from a project entitled 'Competitiveness by Leveraging Emerging Technologies Economically' (COMPLETE), carried out by JRC-IPTS. Each of the COMPLETE studies illustrates in its own right that European companies are active on many fronts of emerging and...