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A new environment |
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Innovation policy will be further integrated in EU enterprise policy, as set out in the March Communication on Innovation. To ensure this, the Commission is reorganising its resources within the Enterprise DG, bringing staff of the Innovation Directorate closer to other policy areas. |
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PAXIS 2 looks east |
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The second phase of PAXIS supports six large projects to develop the lessons learned in PAXIS 1 and adds a fifth thematic network. Transferring innovation know-how to central and eastern European countries is a major new priority. |
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Incubating methodology |
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The availability of seed capital and incubator facilities can have a massive impact on the success of new high-tech businesses. Support schemes such as these have often played a role in innovative regions, and now a new PAXIS project aims to transfer these ideas to several of the acceding countries. |
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Dynamic markets and market dynamics |
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It is individual enterprises that realise the economic value of new knowledge by converting it into marketable products and services. Can policy intervention encourage such activity? Yes, says a new report, but measures must be tailored to the specific circumstances of particular industries. |
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The key to progress |
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In traditional industries many processes could be made more efficient and less environmentally harmful, but resistance to change often leaves new ideas on the shelf. Sharing knowledge and experience of new techniques is critical to their acceptance, as the case of the printing industry - where the Subsprint project has helped introduce new methods for cleaning presses - shows. |
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May 2003 
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