Revolutionising EU Innovation Policy Pioneering the Future
The purpose of this ground-breaking book is to inspire the principle of innovation as a permeating program for Europe’s societies. After demonstrating early success from the realization of a single market and single currency, the European cooperation proc
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KLAUS GRETSCHMANN STEFAN SCHEPERS
REVOLUTIONISING EU INNOVATION POLICY Pioneering the Future
Revolutionising EU Innovation Policy
Klaus Gretschmann • Stefan Schepers Editors
Revolutionising EU Innovation Policy Pioneering the Future
Editors Klaus Gretschmann President of CATE Stephanskirchen, Germany
Stefan Schepers Henley Business School Brussels, Belgium
ISBN 978-1-137-55553-3 ISBN 978-1-137-55554-0 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-55554-0
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For Elke, coniugi carissimae, without whose love, affection, and backing I would not be who I am Klaus For my mother, Germaine Lijnen, who taught me the values of Europe Stefan
Preface
When in December 2011 the Polish government, while holding the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU, launched the initiative to set up a high-level expert group to look into EU innovation policy, its successes and failures and its needs for reform, then-Prime Minister Tusk and the Minister of Economy Pawlak had perhaps not imagined how important a contribution they were going to make to promoting more effective innovation and enhanced innovation policy in the European Union (EU). They had the good sense and courage to mandate us “to think outside the box,” and we were fortunate that the equally visionary Irish and Italian Council presidencies asked us to continue the work. The High Level Group on Innovation Policy Management (HLG on IPM) had three characteristics which were meant to substantially improve the creativity and serendipity of our discussions: (1) It h
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