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...

Innovation is crucial to achieve sustainable growth and jobs in European regions. New products and services strengthen the competitiveness of European enterprises and create jobs. Public procurement accounts for nearly 20% of GDP in Europe. The way in which this public money is spent has a clear...

Innovation is crucial to achieve sustainable growth and jobs in European regions. New products and services strengthen the competitiveness of European enterprises and create jobs. Public procurement accounts for nearly 20% of GDP in Europe. The way in which this public money is spent has a clear...

Innovation in times of economic challenges means taking risk in a risky environment. With systematic Innovation Management and true entrepreneurial skills these risks can be prudently managed for value creation. If Innovation Management is geared to tangible business impact it helps companies to...

This is the first edition of the Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS). Based on the previous European Innovation Scoreboard, this revised tool is meant to help monitor the implementation of the Europe 2020 Innovation Union flagship by providing a comparative assessment of the innovation performance...

Innovation management is a key driver for sustainable and profitable growth of enterprises - and hence for the competitiveness of Europe. To increase the innovation management capabilities the European Commission has launched an initiative to develop and test better services in innovation...

Since 2001 the European Innovation Scoreboard has been providing an annual assessment of innovation performance across the EU. The 2009 report follows the methodology established in 2008, with a revised set of indicators which better recognise the importance of service sectors, non-technological...