Technological developments, globalisation and urbanisation will soon pose fundamental questions regarding future perspectives and patterns for growth, jobs, innovation and education. The answers to these questions will depend on the constellations, values and lifestyles of newly emerging actors,...

The EU invests substantially into the supply side of R&I, in particular through Horizon 2020 and Structural Funds, but what is missing is an explicit long-term strategy guiding these instruments. As a consequence, impacts remain unclear and disconnected from broader policy objectives. Instead of...

The publication is the report of a foresight study aimed at supporting the development of the Strategic Plan of Horizon Europe (2025-2027) with early-stage strategic intelligence and sense-making contributions - issues, trends, perspectives, ideas - that could contribute novel elements to the...

In relation to innovation research, the 20 projects selected for this review reflect the current contribution to the field of insights from evolutionary economics, modern firm theories, institutional economics and the heuristics of innovation systems. Although the findings and perspectives from...

IPTS hosted a thematic workshop on the "Socio-Economic Aspects of the Knowledge-based Europe: The role of Information Society Technologies (ISTs)", which set out to diagnose major problems for Europe in achieving the Lisbon 2010 objectives. It also aimed to elaborate on possible new initiatives...

Research and innovation is at the core of the Commission's vision for a more united, stronger and democratic Union. Our budgetary proposals for the period 2021-2027 include the largest absolute increase ever to the European Union's investment in research and innovation to € 100bn. Horizon...

The foresight study Beyond the Horizon: foresight in support of future EU Research and Innovation Policy (BOHEMIA), aims to support the deliberations on future Commission proposals for a post-2020 Research and Innovation Framework. The BOHEMIA Delphi statements are not meant to provide a broad...