The practices originate from very different regions, but all aim at helping new companies through the practical difficulties they face during their creation and early growth periods. Over the past five years, some 1400 contributors identified and analysed over 300 methodologies and good...

Europe's ability to become more competitive in the global market depends, amongst others, on an effective support to innovation. Evaluation and other assessment tools have proved to be useful for an effective design and implementation of the initiatives that support innovation. Smart innovation...

The "European innovation progress report 2006" is the annual synthesis report of the TrendChart initiative. The TrendChart serves the "open method of policy co-ordination" laid down by the Lisbon council in March 2000 in the field of innovation. It supports organisation and scheme managers in...

To achieve sustainable global competitiveness, the EU has no choice but to become a vibrant knowledge economy. Innovation and research policies are central to this, as together they cover the full spectrum of issues affecting the genesis of new knowledge and ideas, their use and commercial...