Transcript The importance of innovation in the European Union`s 2020 strategy

Lambert van Nistelrooij, MEP (EPP Group)
The importance of innovation
in the European Union’s 2020
strategy
Lambert van Nistelrooij
Member of the European Parliament,
EPP- Group/CDA
8 September 2011
Lambert van Nistelrooij, MEP (EPP Group)
EU 2020 strategy
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EU Strategy for 2010-2020
Launched in March 2010 by European Commission President José Manuel
Barroso
Aims for:
- smart growth (fostering knowledge, innovation, education and digital
society);
- sustainable growth (making our production more resource
efficient while boosting our competitiveness)
- inclusive growth (raising participation in the labour market, the
acquisition of skills and the fight against poverty).
And:
societal challenges (climate change, scarce energy, demographic
change and security)
greater coordination of national and European policy
Lambert van Nistelrooij, MEP (EPP Group)
Why EU 2020?
 Europe needs to get ‘back on track’ → get out of
the financial crisis and prepare for next decade
 Europe is not on track yet → Europe's target for
2010 for spending 3% of EU GDP to research
and development (Lisbon Strategy) has not
been realised yet. (EU-27 1.9% in 2008.)
 Europe is lacking behind countries like the US
and Japan
 This needs to change → Europe needs to be
more competitive
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How?
Flagship initiatives in EU 2020 Strategy:
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Innovation Union
Youth on the move
A digital agenda for Europe
Resource-efficient Europe
An industrial policy for green growth
An agenda for new skills and jobs
European platform against poverty
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Innovation Union
• What will be the basis for Europe's future
competitiveness?
• How will we create new growth and jobs?
• How will we get Europe's economy back on track?
• How will we tackle growing societal challenges like
climate change, energy supply, the scarcity of
resources and the impact of demographic changes?
• How will we improve health and security and sustainably
provide water and high-quality, affordable food?
The only answer is INNOVATION
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EU Competition-index
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EU 27 country groups
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Innovation leaders:
Denmark, Finland, Germany, Sweden and the UK
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Innovation followers:
Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, the
Netherlands and Slovenia.
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Moderate innovators:
Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Poland,
Portugal, Slovakia and Spain.
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Catching-up countries:
Bulgaria, Latvia and Romania, with innovation performance
significantly below the EU27 average.
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European weaknesses
in innovation
• Under-investment in our knowledge
foundation
• Unsatisfactory framework conditions
• Too much fragmentation and costly
duplication.
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Innovation Union
• Launched 6 October 2010 by the European Commission
• Aim: to improve the conditions and access to finance
for research and innovation and assures that innovative
ideas turn into products and services that create growth
and jobs.
• 4 concrete proposals:
– Create a European Patent
– Speed up standardisation
– Make more use of public procurement
– Enhance access to finance
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Report Van Nistelrooij:
Synergy cohesion and R&D&I
85 billion euro allocated for innovation in structural funds
54 bln
R&D + INNOVATION
(F.P.’s)
SYNERGY
85 billion
INNOVATION
(S.F.)
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Focus points in the European Parliament
• Simplification
• More participation needed SMEs and industry
• Creating ‘stairway to excellence’
• Smart specialisation
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INNOHELIX
• Excellent initiative  collaboration NL- Hungary
• Always been actively involved with Tilburg and
its innovation-initiatives (SHARE-ERIC)
• Participation WIRE conference Debrecen,
Hungary
(Regional Dimension of the Innovation Union)