Climates for Creativity and Innovation -- “Climates for Creativity and Innovation: building a context for meaning”, summary of theme discussion -- Implementation of innovation: a case study from the food industry -- Improving corporate climates for creativity; learning from four...

The transport sector is one of the most important sectors for the European economy. Its importance stems not only from its size - which is estimated to be € 803 billion or 6.6% of European GDP in 2007 - but also from the fact that it plays a crucial role in connecting other economic actors...

Total employment in the printing, publishing, and recorded media industry in 2006 amounted to 1.91 million jobs, which is equivalent to 0.87% of overall EU employment and 5.54% of EU manufacturing employment. The printing and publishing sector is a fairly important sector in terms for employment...

The non-metallic materials sector covers a broad range of industries which are all involved in the processing of natural resources (e.g. silica sand, clay, natural stone and rock) into marketable products. Overall employment in the EU in the non-metallic materials sector amounted to 1.62 million...

Total employment for the sector aggregate Furniture and other industries amounted to 2,007,000 persons in 2006 in the EU. Almost three-fourth of employment was concentrated in the furniture sector. The jewellery sector accounted for 6% of total employment. Two-third of employment in furniture is...

The chemicals industry is a major contributor to the EU economy in terms of output, value-added, employment, and (net) exports. The sector supplies products to almost all downstream industry sectors and is an important engine for innovation for the wider economy. It plays a key role in...

Post and telecoms were amongst the most changing sectors of the 1990s. Both sectors have now been privatised and opened up to competition following EU liberalisation law. The EU employed about 3.3 million post and telecoms workers in 2006. A large share of them, 83%, was working in the EU-15 and...

This study presents the results of a third assessment of critical raw materials for the EU. The criticality assessment is carried out since 2011 and is renewed every three years to reflect production, market and technological developments. A refined methodology developed by the European...