Innovation policy

About a seventh of the $787 billion US economic stimulus package is targeted at innovation, but can it make a difference soon enough?

There’s a lot of money up for grabs in the US to those with the persistence to find the specific part of the innovation stimulus that applies to them.

The Council of Ministers is to provide €100 million from the EU’s 7th Framework Programme to boost research capacities of SMEs in Europe.

A single structure for start-up companies is critical for innovation, said Commissioner Charlie McCreevy at the launch of the Small Business Act for Europe.

Finnish researcher Jyrki Ali-Yrkkö, of the Helsinki School of Economics, has shown it is possible to increase the R&D activities of companies through public funding.

An exclusive focus on regulatory issues means we are ignoring a crucial longer-term question: the global competitiveness of the European ICT sector, says Martin Fransman.

Denmark is the most networked economy in the world, according to latest edition of the Global Information Technology Report.