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Radical Response to a Quantum Shift |
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The Lisbon Summit marked a turning point for EU enterprise and innovation policy, for it saw the high-level integration of social and economic policy with practical initiatives to strengthen Europe's research capacity, promote entrepreneurship and facilitate take-up of information society technologies. |
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Quality Time |
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The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) has completed the first EU-level foresight exercise. It looks forward to a European Union based around high-tech industries, competing on know-how, quality and performance. |
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Climbing the Value Chain |
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National and regional prosperity, according to the principal theorist of industrial clusters, is built around self-reinforcing technology networks. In Europe, regional networks are at an early stage of development, but global competition is already creating pressure to link them transnationally. |
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Extended Incubation |
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Privately financed business parks can extend the traditional science park model by offering a property ladder to technology-led start-ups as they move out of prototyping and into production. This innovative approach increases survival rates and benefits both investors and start-ups. |
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May 2000 
