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Taking the pulse of innovation |
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The third Community Innovation Survey represents a unique source of information on the innovation scene in Europe, and sheds some light on the kinds of businesses that are innovative and the obstacles they face. |
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Managers and innovators |
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Market forces are the most important stimulus to innovation and a company’s employees are its most valuable asset. These and other findings from the 2003 Innobarometer survey lend support to the priorities of the forthcoming EU Innovation Action Plan. |
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New tools of the trade |
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A recent study shows that companies are mostly unaware of innovation management techniques, yet they are vital if businesses are to survive and grow in a competitive global market place – so policy-makers need to find ways to encourage their uptake. |
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Studying the money |
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The EU’s Gate2Growth initiative aims to develop better contacts between entrepreneurs and investors, to enable ideas to be developed into new products and services more efficiently. Its Finance Academia network engages the brains of the academic sector in support of this objective. |
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Fostering better knowledge and management of IP |
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The IPR-Helpdesk is an EU-supported service designed to help research consortia, particularly those working on Sixth Research Framework Programme projects, understand the issues surrounding intellectual property rights in their work. Now into the second full year of FP6 activities, the IPR-Helpdesk team is building up expertise in the specific needs of the new types of actions introduced by FP6. |
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