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May 2005 (1 Mb .pdf file)
Broadening the horizons for European travel
Innovation in tourism
Plus: Reviewing the Lisbon strategy * Fourth Forum for Innovative Enterprises * Central Macedonia gets innovative * Life cycle assessments for SMEs ... and more |
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July 2004 (1 235Kb .pdf file)
Inviting Cinderella to the innovation ball
Innovation in services
Plus: Slow progress on Lisbon strategy * Virtual manufacturing * Euro Office – helping start-ups go abroad * Business at the Olympics * On-line therapy for bulimia ... and more |
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May 2004 (910Kb .pdf file)
Teeing up for success
Women entrepreneurs
Plus: European Business Summit * Heroines of tomorrow * Third Community Innovation Survey * Environmental technologies action plan ... and more |
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March 2004 (967Kb .pdf file)
Building firms' capacity to innovate
Innovation in Ireland
Plus: How competitive is the Union? * Ireland’s economic growth * Four years of the Innovation Trend Chart * The network looks forward ... and more |
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January 2004 (813Kb .pdf file)
Measuring Europe's performance
European Innovation Scoreboard 2003
Plus: Reducing risks for start-ups * Shannon’s innovative development * Cluster initiatives from around the world * South-Central Bulgaria builds strategy ... and more |
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November 2003 (982Kb .pdf file)
Innovation in European aviation
Sustainable flight to the future
Plus: Actions speak louder than words * Measured success for biotech industry * A prized partnership * European research to the fore ... and more |
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September 2003 (976Kb .pdf file)
Innovation Governance
Joined-up POLICY-MAKING
Plus: Council endorses new approach * Market intelligence * Impact assessment * Doctors on the run ... and more |
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July 2003 (899 Kb .pdf file)
Innovation in Italy
Recreating traditional strengths
Plus: IT investment = innovation? * PAXIS enters second phase * Opening up policy for small business * Nano and microbrokerage ... and more |
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May 2003 (886 Kb .pdf file)
Innovation in candidate countries
Strengthening industrial performance
Plus: New Communication on Innovation policy * Innovation in candidate countries * Acceptance of solar energy * Helping SMEs get into medical technologies *
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April 2003 (804 Kb .pdf file)
(Special edition)
Commission Communication on Innovation policy
Updating the Union's approach
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March 2003 (1129 Kb .pdf file)
Clustering of Innovation projects
Think new by sharing experiences
Plus: Targets for business-friendly policy * Clustering of Innovation projects * Innovation Scoreboard – candidate countries * Transnational partnership for better IRC services * IST Results promoting new technologies *
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February 2003 (511 Kb .pdf file)
(Special edition)
European Trend Chart on Innovation: Reviewing Europe’s progress in 2002
Promising steps for innovation |
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January 2003 (1047 Kb .pdf file)
Innovation in Greece
Changing the focus of business
Plus: Big opening for new R&D programme * The lessons of PAXIS *The business of foresight * Big opportunities for small companies
... and more |
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November 2002 (915 Kb .pdf file)
Innovation in FP6
Bringing researchers and industry closer
Plus: Not so bad after all? * Taking the pulse of business innovation * Rooting for networks *Space for new companies
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October 2002 (690 Kb .pdf file)
(Special edition)
A Directory of European Innovation
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September 2002 (1136 Kb .pdf file)
Risk and reward
changing the climate
Plus: The innovation activities of FP6 * Gate2Growth * Innovation project clusters – lessons for FP6’s integrated projects? * Meeting of the Innovating Regions in Europe network in Stratford * Regional clusters and business networks – a new framework *
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July 2002 (1092 Kb .pdf file)
Business incubation
Growing companies
Plus: Innovation - a new culture * Academic entrepreneurship - what works * IRCs join forces with Eureka * At the cutting edge of technology brokerage ... and more |
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May 2002 (806 Kb .pdf file)
Innovation in Spain
Great leap forward
Plus: EU research and industry ministers emphasise non-R&D innovation activity * Innovation in Spain - Great leap forward * Innovation and regulatory framework - the case of Finland * Transfer of space technologies to other sectors ... and more |
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March 2002 (1.03 Mb .pdf file)
Creation of Innovative Enterprises
Europe's Cities - Centres of
innovation culture
Plus: Competitiveness - Europe still has more to do *
Europe's cities - centres of innovation culture *
Financing innovation with mutual and
public-sector guarantees * IRC Annual Meeting -
IRCs in FP6 * ... and more |
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January 2002 (2.34 Mb .pdf file)
Intellectual Property
A balance of interests
Plus: Intellectuel property: A balance of interests *
Everyone wants a single Community Patent *
Divergent views on software patenting *
PAXIS project creates cross-border 'virtual incubator'
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November 2001 (1.01 Mb .pdf file)
Innovation projects
Action learning
Plus: Towards a European innovation culture * Flight simulator for innovation pilots? * "If the IRC network did not exist... * Workplace integration and efficiency ... and more |
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October 2001 (938 Kb .pdf file)
Innovation
Scoreboard 2001 |
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September 2001 (1.75 Mb .pdf file)
Innovation policy
Exchange of good practice
Plus: * Dossier : Exchange of good practice * Making connections * Co-ordinating cancer research * Industrial relations in the new economy *... and more |
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July 2001 (2.65 Mb .pdf file)
Regional Innovation -
The Belgian Experience
Plus: * Dossier : Regional Innovation in Belgium * Innovation statistics - new Community Innovation Survey report * Sectoral platforms - SMEs innovate through coo-operation * Rationalisation of EU Business support networks *... and more |
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Mai 2001 (1.7 Mb .pdf file)
Knowledge - the Only Frontier
Plus: * Dossier - incubator financing * Innovation and job creation * Software patentability * New action helps SMEs to participate in EU research... and more |
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March 2001 (2.14 Mb .pdf file)
Eastern promise
Plus: * Enterprise policy tackles the business
environment * Statistics on innovation and enterprise
creation * Technology transfer spawns new quality
control body * Innovation Relay Centres find a wider role in the regions... and more |
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January 2001 (3.15 Mb .pdf file)
Europe's Information Society - Access All Areas
Plus: * Corporate spin-out success * European Forum for Innovative Companies in Lyon * Technology transfer from large public research institutes *Visualisation software for urban planners... and more |
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December 2000 (2.13 Mb .pdf file)
The Innovation Connection
Plus: * Commission Communication on innovation policy * The European Research Area and FP6 * Progress towards a Community Patent * Two new drying technologies for the food and pharmaceuticals industries
and more |
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November 2000 (2.6 Mb .pdf file)
Innovation
in a knowledge-driven economy |
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September 2000 (2.2 Mb .pdf file)
Innovating Regions in Europe
Innovation Networks Mesh Together
Plus: * Report from the European Business Summit * The rise of the European business angel * Forthcoming study on tax and innovation * Innovation in the field of social and health care.. and more |
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July 2000 (2.2 Mb .pdf file)
Electronic Commerce
The European dot.com Mission
Plus: * Radical Response to a Quantum Shift * Quality Time * Climbing the Value Chain * Extended Incubation * Scenarios and Ripple Effects * Testing Tell-tale Breath * Stars Rising in the East * Any Kind of Paint You Like * Consolidation and Ambition * Sounding Out New Markets * Ready, Aim, Export * Technology Transfer in Eastern Europe... and more |
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Special edition - June 2000 (1.338 Kb .pdf file)
Innovation & Creativity
Transforming Europe |
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May 2000 (1.950 Kb .pdf file)
Innovation Projects
Innovation's Spreading Ripples
Plus: * Interview with Fabio Colasanti, * Director-General of Enterprise DG * Linking Europe's 'regions of innovation excellence' * Comparison of EU and US innovation systems * The non-technical barriers to energy technology innovation... and more |
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March 2000 (1.500 Kb .pdf file)
Innovation: Facts & Figures
A New Breed of European Entrepreneur
Plus: Regulation and innovation - from trade-off to mutual reinforcement * SME participation in the Fifth Research Framework Programme * A new phase in the development of the Innovation Relay Centre network * TIPs - an effective means of avoiding delays in the exploitation of research results... and more |
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January 2000 (1.629 Kb .pdf file)
Intellectual Property:
Hot commodity of the new century
Plus: New assessment method for concrete structures saves maintenance costs * Chaos theory used to prevent runaway reactions at chemical plants * Bringing business-to-business e-commerce within the reach of SMEs * IST 99 - key role for SMEs in building the Information Society... and more |
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November 1999 (2100 Kb .pdf file)
Innovation =
[Technology + People] + Capital
Plus: Innovation policy managed by new Enterprise Directorate-General * Virtual prototyping shortens the product development cycle * A cost-effective solution to pulp and paper industry pollution * IRCs help small companies to visit trade fairs via video link... and more |
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October 1999 (1100 Kb .pdf file)
Innovation,
Growth and Employment |
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September 1999 (2.3 Mb .pdf file)
Innovation
How to Spin Straw into Gold
Plus: Face recognition technology for improved access control * High-speed, high-resolution video for industrial research * On-line help to catch product counterfeiters... and more |
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July 1999 (2.9 Mb .pdf file)
Progress of the
Innovation Action Plan
Plus: Reducing the cost of managing urban traffic flows * Novelty searches - a means to improve the efficiency of research * Environmental technologies -the IRC network makes the connections * Using sunshine to drive office air-conditioning ... and more |
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May 1999 (1.621 Mb .pdf file)
Opportunities
for SMEs
Plus: Vaccination without tears * Satellites help forecast floods * Learning to be an entrepreneur * Health telematics - giving doctors access to the latest
medical research ... and more |
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March 1999 (2.06 Mb .pdf file)
Building a Europe
of Knowledge
Plus: The role of the new Innovation/ SMEs programme in FP5 * Robotised welding for the European rolling stock industry * Cultural heritage research as a source of technology transfer opportunities * JRC launches two advanced software products ... and more |
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January 1999 (1.85 Mb .pdf file)
Protecting the Quality
of Europe's Rivers
Plus: First Forum for Innovative Companies: role models for an innovative Europe * Transferring medical technologies * Substitutes for hazardous products ... and more |
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December 1998 (408 Kb .pdf file)
Innovation, Creation of
New Businesses and Jobs |
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November 1998 (2 Mb .pdf file)
Technologies for
the Information Age
Plus: Annual Report on European Union research * Innovation in a low-margin industry * Helping young companies to license their technologies * Joint Research Centre and industrial partners speeding land-mines clearance, ... and more |
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September, 1998 (2.08 Mb .pdf file)
Earth Observation:
Feedback from a Small Planet
Plus: Innovation in Europe's regions * A step change for photo-voltaics * New materials for old buildings * Video-telephony * and more |
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