Home > Reports

Reports

Digitalisation in Tourism. In-depth analysis of challenges and opportunities

The study conducted by Aalborg University, Denmark was commissioned by the European Commission’s Executive Agency for Small and Medium Enterprises (EASME) to examine the challenges and opportunities of digitalisation in tourism and analyses how these affect different stakeholder groups and how they could be addressed. The study gives as well a good overview of the needs of tourism SMEs in different parts of the EU in terms of digital skills and developing on-line services. Drawing from a quantitative survey of 2.897 SMEs, 73 public administrations and 85 professional associations conducted in...
Read more
  • May 22, 2019
  • alina danielescu

Mainstreaming Gender in Cluster Development

Acknowledging the importance of gender equality and the empowerment of women to the vision of the 2030 Agenda for achieving inclusive and sustainable growth around the world, UNIDO strives to systematically adopt a gender perspective throughout the planning and implementation phases of its interventions, from cluster selection to monitoring and evaluation. This paper explores UNIDO’s approach to gender mainstreaming in its Cluster Development Programme by focusing on the critical factors that need to be integrated into a cluster development project, and on the problems and limitations that...
Read more
  • May 10, 2019
  • alina danielescu

REGIONS IN INDUSTRIAL TRANSITION. NO REGION LEFT BEHIND

On 8 May 2019 the European Commission (DG REGIO) published a brochure presenting the first, promising results of the launched pilot actions to support ‘Regions in Industrial Transition’, ’Coal Regions in Transition’ and the creation of new value chains through interregional investment in innovation. The aim is to capitalise on Europe’s strengths: its diversity, dynamism and the willingness of actors at national, regional and local level to test new approaches. The pilot action on "Regions in Industrial Transition" was launched at the beginning of 2018 in order to help regions undergoing...
Read more
  • May 08, 2019
  • alina danielescu

University-Industry Collaboration : New Evidence and Policy Options

Targeting in particular policy makers, "University-Industry Collaboration. New Evidence and Policy Options" presents the main outcomes of the OECD Working Party on Innovation and Technology Policy (TIP) 's project "Assessing the Impacts of the Policy Mix for Knowledge Transfer" conducted in 2017-2018, and contains the main findings and policy recommendations of the project. Building on relevant policy papers issued in 2017-2019 but also on twenty case study contributions, the report discusses challenges and opportunities in assessing the impacts of science-industry knowledge exchange on...
Read more
  • Apr 30, 2019
  • alina danielescu

Gender equality, diversity, and inclusion in innovation: Roundtable summary report

In Gender equality, diversity, and inclusion: Roundtable summary report , The Institute fo Competitiveness and Prosperity presents the challenges of incorporating gender equality, diversity, and inclusion into clusters in Canada, particularly into the five Superclusters, as well as a number of recommendations. The Institute, in partnership with the WE EMPOWER Programme of UN Women, hosted a roundtable on January 25, 2019 with 30 leaders from a variety of backgrounds. As the roundtable followed Chatham House Rules, individual respondents are not identified but their insights are incorporated...
Read more
  • Mar 11, 2019
  • alina danielescu

The 2018 Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends report - The rise of the social enterprise

Based on a global survey of more than 11,000 business and HR leaders, as well as interviews with executives from some of today’s leading organizations, the fundamental change from business enterprises into social enterprises is showcased in the 2018 Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends report . This shift reflects the growing importance of social capital in shaping an organization’s purpose, guiding its relationships with stakeholders, and influencing its ultimate success or failure. ' A social enterprise is an organization whose mission combines revenue growth and profitmaking with the need...
Read more
  • Mar 03, 2019
  • alina danielescu

Are EU companies adopting digital technologies?

The 2018 Digital Transformation Scoreboard shows that the uptake of digital technologies by businesses is increasing. Equally, more EU countries perform above the average in the integration of digital technology. The United Kingdom, Spain, Denmark and Luxembourg are the most digitally-aware European countries. Improvements are necessary for some eastern and southern states . 70% of EU companies have invested in digital technologies Every year since 2016, the Digital Transformation Scoreboard studies the uptake of digital technologies in businesses across the EU. This year’s exercise surveyed...
Read more
  • Sep 20, 2018
  • alina danielescu

Innovation & Gender

Published by the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems VINNOVA and authored by Inger Danilda and Jennie Granat Thorslund (eds.), the book tackles questions such as "Why does GENDER DIVERSITY matter when it comes to product and service innovation? What has RESEARCH shown? And what does HARD-WON EXPERIENCE tell us?". A result of a collaboration project between two countries, Norway and Sweden, and three different public agencies, Innovation Norway, the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth and VINNOVA, sharing a common ground, the mission to increase growth by innovation...
Read more
  • Jul 04, 2018
  • alina danielescu

Priority Sector Report: Agrofood

In order to support evidence-based policy-making and partnering, the European Cluster Observatory (2014-2016) provides an EU-wide comparative cluster mapping with sectoral and cross-sectoral statistical analysis of the geographical concentration of economic activities and performance. Considering Agrofood is an important economic driver for European many regions, emerging as one of the most prominent domains wit EU regions smart specialization strategies and is also one of the key thematic orientations of applications and selected cluster projects for new industrial value chains (INNOSUP-1)...
Read more
  • Jun 07, 2018
  • alina danielescu

Clusters and Workforce Development

The presented discussion paper, released by the European Cluster Observatory (2014-2016), aims at initiating a debate on the current and future role of clusters and cluster organisations in connection with skills development with a special focus on emerging industries, exploring the role that clusters, cluster initiatives and cluster organisations can play in the context of workforce development within emerging industries. The key questions addressed in this discussion paper are as follows: What are the main challenges in providing the necessary skills to grow the talent pool? How can we...
Read more
  • Jun 07, 2018
  • alina danielescu

Pages