Innovation Impact results published
 ImageThe results of the Innovation Impact study have been approved by the European Commission and are publsihed on this site under the results section.

In this section you will find the full final report, the case study report, executive summaries of both reports and presentations.

A shortened version of the study report will be published by the Euopean Publications Office later this year.

 

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Innovation Impact Conference 23-24 October

 

The results of the Innovation Impact study will be presented on the Conference 'Turning Knowledge into Practice, that will take place on 23-24 October 2007 in Berlin.

The conference is organised under the PRO INNO Europe initiative of the European Commission. This initiative aims to become the focal point for innovation policy analysis, learning and development in Europe, with a view to learning from the best and contributing to the development of new and better innovation policies in Europe. The initiative contributes, inter alia, to the creation, consolidation and strengthening of an evaluation culture in Europe by collecting, analysing and disseminating good practices, methodologies, and background information regarding evaluation and impact assessments of innovation programmes.Within the broader perspective of PRO INNO Europe, the conference will provide policy makers, programme owners and managers as well as companies and innovation experts with concrete information about the state of the art of the evaluation and impact assessment of publicly funded programmes.

 

More information on the conference can be found on: http://conference.imp-lore.org/. Registration is also on this site.
 
Survey attracts over 8000 responses

The Innovatiion Impact survey has been successfull in getting the required response to the questionnaire. End of July 2007 over 8000 reponses have been received, the survey is still open for those who wish to participate.

This response rate and number is very high compared to previous studies done in this field of collaborative international research. The study team would like to thank all people that have spent their time on completing the complex and quite lengthy questionnaire, without their help our research would have been impossible.

In addition to the good response we can say that the response is highly representative in terms of types of participating organisations, thematic areas covered, types of funding instruments and countries. Based on the status of responses in June 2007 the following respresnetativeness analysis has been done.
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Welcome to Innovation Impact!

ImageInnovation is a policy priority in the EU as it is regarded as a key driver of competitiveness and economic progress.

 

At the moment, the European Union, despite a strong record of scientific excellence, lags behind in innovation performance, especially in terms of the commercial benefits that firms manage to exploit from their research efforts. This situation is far from being in line with the Lisbon objective of making the Union “the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010”. 

 

Therefore, the the Commission has initiated the Innovation Impact study. The study analyses the relationship between RTD projects, innovation and economic performance at the firm level as well as at industry sector level. 

 

The overall objective of the Innovation Impact study is to understand the relationship between research, technological advancement, innovation and economic performance in the context of collaborative RTD projects, funded by the European Framework Programmes, in order to make these projects and programmes more useful to foster innovation and boost economic performance among the participants.

 

The results of the study are particularly relevant in view of the 7th Framework Programme and the Programme on Competitiveness and Innovation. 
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