European Commission releases report, 'Innovation: Creating knowledge and jobs - Insights from European research in socio-economic sciences'
The Europe 2020 strategy to achieve smart, sustainable, and inclusive growth will have 'innovation' as one of its key drivers. On 1 June 2010, a conference was held in Brussels to discuss the many facets of innovation and how it plays into Europe's socio-economic sciences. The above mentioned publication draws from the discussions and presentation of this conference.
In particular, the report addresses the issues of intangible investments, the role of finance to push innovation, the importance of entrepreneurship, the dynamics of institutions and markets, regional economic growth, social innovation, social entrepreneurs, the service economy, the internationalisation of firms and the globalisation of knowledge, global innovation networks and the R&D and innovation perspectives.For further information, please visit:
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