net-innov future is produced by the Net Innovation team (unit E3) of the European Commission's DG CONNECT - 'Net Futures' Directorate. The Net Innovation unit coordinates and facilitates research and programmes aimed at stimulating web entrepreneurship and businesses, public-private partnership...

This report focuses on non-participating highly innovative SMEs in the ICT sector with the aim to clarify the reasons for not participating in European research programs and to suggest ways forward for the new ICT-FP8/Horizon 2020 to remedy the situation. This was done by launching an online...

This report focuses on non-participating highly innovative SMEs in the ICT sector with the aim to clarify the reasons for not participating in European research programs and to suggest ways forward for the new ICT-FP8/Horizon 2020 to remedy the situation. This was done by launching an online...

The Open Innovation 2012 follows the Service Innovation Yearbook 2009-10 and the Service Innovation Yearbook 2010-11. All these yearbooks have three complementary parts: the first on policy development, the second on trends and weak signals in service innovation, and the third on cases and open...

This paper looks at the changes in the merging societal and technical innovation ecosystems, and highlights the importance of open innovation as the possibility to create the user-centricity and at the same time the innovations needed for a fl ourishing value-based knowledge society.