The European enterprise promotion awards support the aims of the small business act by recognising innovation and rewarding the success of public bodies and public-private partnerships in promoting enterprise and entrepreneurship at a national, regional and local level.

Social innovation is by essence difficult to measure as it cuts across several sectors such as health, education, inclusion, urban regeneration, rural development, transport, energy or environment. All benefits are therefore difficult to aggregate beyond the level of direct recipients of those...

Social innovation brings solutions to unmet social needs and to societal challenges better than existing alternatives. Even though everybody agrees it is needed in Europe, it still receives little funding compared to research and technological development. The report explores all funding...

Naples 2.0 is an international social innovation competition organised in Naples over 2011-2012, whereby contestants from the city, from Italy and from abroad were invited to propose ideas to overcome 6 challenges affecting the city. The publication presents the winners of the Competition and...

The Report of the EU Expert Group on patent valorisation provide an assessment of the opportunity of taking policy measures to enhance the valorisation of patents through their sale or licensing, in view of transforming the related technologies into new goods and services. The Expert Group...

Structural Funds should play an important role in supporting concrete projects aiming to enhance the transfer of business. This document therefore intends to provide an indication of actions that could be usefully taken in all countries and in all regions with the support of European Structural...

The guide aims to illustrate how strategic regional public support can offer small and medium-sized enterprises a favourable environment and support them to better capitalise on service innovation in view of staying competitive in global value chains that include both manufacturing and services....

Structural Funds (in particular the ESF and the ERDF) have an important role to play in supporting concrete projects aiming to enhance the entrepreneurial mindsets, skills and attitudes of young people. However, so far not in all EU Member States this opportunity has been fully exploited. This...

The objective of this guide on standardisation and SMEs is to assist Structural Funds managing authorities and other policy-makers involved in the preparation of the post 2013 generation of Structural Funds with the preparation of support measures aimed at boosting SMEs' use of standards and...

The second volume of the "Let's embrace space" publication presents, in a concise and illustrative way, the results of 55 projects funded under the EU Space Research Programme. The first volume was published in 2011 and is also available at the EU Bookshop. This book shows the research results...