We are at the cusp of a new wave of innovation, where digital technologies have started to converge with the physical and biological spheres, opening up a wide range of new opportunities for breakthrough and disruptive innovations that will quickly and deeply transform our economies and...

The High Level Group of Innovators, which consists of 15 individuals who represent the different stakeholders of an innovation community, are supporting the European Commission in developing a European Innovation Council in the next research and innovation framework programme (post-2020). This...

The High Level Group of Innovators, which consists of fifteen individuals who represent the different stakeholders of an innovation community, are supporting the European Commission in developing a European Innovation Council in the next research and innovation framework programme (post-2020)....

This review of research on social innovation (SI) examines its place in research and innovation projects, especially those funded by the EU. It also reflects on the relevance of SI and SI research in collective action, policy making and socio-political transformation in Europe and the world...

Launched in 2008, the innovative medicines initiative (IMI) is the world's largest public-private partnership for health research. It has a budget of over €5 billion for the period 2008 to 2024. The IMI's mission is to improve health by accelerating the development of new treatments and by...

Innovation actions were introduced in Horizon 2020 to help bringing discoveries to the market. Most of them demonstrate the application of new knowledge in real-life conditions. The very first projects started in 2014 and it still is too early for them to produce final results, but a short study...

The study on the framework conditions for high-growth innovative enterprises (HGIE) relates HGIE performance to the prevailing entrepreneurial framework conditions in 37 countries, including all EU Member States, other European countries and five non-European countries selected for their...