Public procurement of innovation (PPI) has recently gained a renewed impetus and interest in most OECD countries as well as in the academic literature. A number of scholarly typologies of PPI instruments has been elaborated to understand better their nature and impacts. However, no unified...

Both Concorde and Airbus are international initiatives aimed at improving the competitiveness of the European aircraft manufacturing. The former, Concorde, was the first supersonic transport passenger-carrying commercial airplane, built jointly by aircraft manufacturers in France and the United...

Through the AAL Programme, some EU Member States and other economies co-finance initiatives for the development of ICT-based solutions. The objectives are to address the pressing ageing demographic challenge by ensuring active and healthy ageing, while supporting the development of European...

This annex provides tabular information on the implementation of the Directive 96/9/EC (DBD) in the EU-Member States, for eight countries in more in-depth form (particularly with respective case law), for 20 in a rather overview manner. For additional three countries outside of the EU,...

On 21st November 2017, a workshop was conducted in the context of the study on the legal protection of databases. The ultimate objectives of the workshop were two-fold. It aimed, firstly, to collect further evidence on the impacts that the Directive 96/9/EC has been having on the database users...

Next to desk research and an online survey, a series of in-depth interviews were conducted by the project in order to inform the economic and legal analyses of the outputs, outcomes and impacts of the Database Directive, in the context of the broader data economy and the Data Economy Package.

The online survey consists of two questionnaires targeting database users, makers and user-makers, and experts. The questionnaire for database users, makers and user-makers was launched on 29th September 2017, and invitations were sent out in several batches. The expert questionnaire followed on...

The aim of this analysis is to assess the impact of the Database Directive from an economic point of view. It is based on different sorts of relevant evidence, including quantitative data, expert views gathered in a workshop, stakeholder interviews and survey answers. The remaining of this...