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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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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)...
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  • 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...
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  • Jun 07, 2018
  • alina danielescu

Evaluation report of BSR Stars Innovation Express 2015 programme

Aimed at addressing the policymakers' demand for understanding the type of results that SMEs have from BSR Stars Innovation Express projects , as well as the role that cluster organizations play in catalyzing SME internationalization, this evaluation report provides an overview of activities and overall lessons learned about the concept, highlighting insights and recommendations for the future. The report was drawn up in December 2017, by Emily Wise - Research Fellow and Consultant Lund University and IEC AB, marking the end of a first five years of implementation of the Innovation Express...
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  • May 07, 2018
  • alina danielescu

Supporting an Innovation Agenda for the Western Balkans - Tools and Methodologies

A Science for Policy report by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission’s science and knowledge service, this publication aims to provide evidence-based scientific support to the European policymaking process. The report (source: https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/eur-scientific-and-technical-research-reports/supporting-innovation-agenda-western-balkans-tools-and-methodologies ) presents the ongoing work of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in supporting an Innovation Agenda for the Western Balkans in cooperation with the Directorate General for...
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  • May 03, 2018
  • alina danielescu

Public Procurement - Guidance for practitioners

As clusters are looking for a possibility to use public procurement for innovation, this guide may be useful in understanding the mechanism of public procurement – and especially with European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF). Following on the great success of the first edition with more than 70,000 downloads, DG REGIO is particularly happy to present the new and updated version of the Public Procurement - Guidance for practitioners on the avoidance of the most common errors in projects funded by the European Structural and Investment Funds. This improved document takes into account the...
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  • Mar 30, 2018
  • alina danielescu

Cluster Management Excellence in the Danube region

ESCA , the European Sercretariat for Cluster Analysis has just released the study Cluster Management Excellence in the Danube region, dedicated to the current status of cluster management excellence in Europe, authored by Helmut Kergel, Dr. Gerd Meier zu Köcker, Michael Nerger and Dr. Oliver Ziegler. The study aims at contributing to the currently ongoing efforts made within ECEI II project to update and further streamline the Cluster Management Excellence and Labelling approach, as well as shading light on the current landscape within the Danube region, while illustrating the similarities...
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  • Mar 13, 2018
  • alina danielescu

EU Publications: A Guide to EU Funding (2017 edition)

In response to the evolution of the world economy and its impact on Europe, the European Commission proposed a set of programmes to boost jobs, growth and investment across the European Union. The programmes are part of the multiannual financial framework 2014-2020. This publication guides you through these programmes and describes the funding opportunities they offer. Detailed information is available on the European Commission’s website. The publication is intended to familiarize the reader with the EU funding field and contains information on types of funding, eligibility , rules and...
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  • Jan 03, 2018
  • codruta marginean

Summary of the report “Lithuanian Clusterization 2017”

Lithuanian Clusters Association presents the report “Lithuanian Clusterization Study 2017”, prepared by the Research Institute for Changes (RICh), within the project "Promotion and development of Innovation Networking - InoLink" (project no 01.2.1.-LVPA-V-842-01- 0002). The aim of the study is to identify the potential and possibilities of the enterprises to join the clusters and foster maturity of existing clusters in the market; to identify the most viable sectors for clusterization; to define and predict clusterization trends and prospects; to assess the clusters’ abilities to enter...
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  • Dec 18, 2017
  • alina danielescu

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