Europe's ability to become more competitive in the global market depends, amongst others, on an effective support to innovation. Evaluation and other assessment tools have proved to be useful for an effective design and implementation of the initiatives that support innovation. Smart innovation...

The "European innovation progress report 2006" is the annual synthesis report of the TrendChart initiative. The TrendChart serves the "open method of policy co-ordination" laid down by the Lisbon council in March 2000 in the field of innovation. It supports organisation and scheme managers in...

This report presents a set of sustainable development indicators which have been developed for the non-energy extractive industry. It is the result of a voluntary initiative to produce 20 indicators describing the economic, social and environmental performance of the industry. The report covers...