This report attempts to summarise findings and conclusions of over 30 studies published within the EURIPIDIS project (European Innovation Policies for the Digital Shift). The objective of EURIPIDIS was to better understand how digital innovation and entrepreneurship work; to assess the EU's...

This paper analyses key challenges for improving the European innovation ecosystem, notably the need to improve: (i) innovation performance to boost productivity growth, (ii) knowledge-intensive industrial activities, (iii) financing of highly innovative activities, (iv) the role of universities...

This paper analyses key challenges for improving the European innovation ecosystem, notably the need to improve: (i) innovation performance to boost productivity growth, (ii) knowledge-intensive industrial activities, (iii) financing of highly innovative activities, (iv) the role of universities...

This report attempts to summarise findings and conclusions of over 30 studies published within the EURIPIDIS project (European Innovation Policies for the Digital Shift). The objective of EURIPIDIS was to better understand how digital innovation and entrepreneurship work; to assess the EU's...

Collaborative Economy became the buzzword used to refer to all kinds of online platform based business models in the recent years. Yet there is no consensus on a working definition for these platforms and robust evidence is lacking on their costs and benefits to society - a precondition for good...

Collaborative Economy became the buzzword used to refer to all kinds of online platform based business models in the recent years. Yet there is no consensus on a working definition for these platforms and robust evidence is lacking on their costs and benefits to society - a precondition for good...

The purpose of this report is to describe the methodology used to develop a comprehensive dataset, denominated INNOREG, which provides information on several potential drivers and barriers to firms' innovation activity. All the examined drivers and barriers depend, in a more or less direct way,...

This report analyses the peculiarities of innovation in Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), an ecosystem composed of various layers: from infrastructure to applications and content, and including end users. The report observes that innovation is becoming more open and...

This report uses data from Efige and from Bureau Van Dijk's Amadeus and Orbis to estimate the effect of funding from the EU and national programmes on firms' employment, sales, added value, productivity and innovativeness. It also looks at the impact of subsidies to investment and R&D...