scholarly journals The European Union Innovation Performance in View of the Lisbon Strategy

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 79-96
Author(s):  
Witold Kasperkiewicz ◽  
Andrzej Kacprzyk
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Lisbon Strategy ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Balanced Development ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Economic Distance ◽  
European Economies ◽  
The Eu

The Lisbon Strategy was accepted by the European Council in March 2000 during the Lisbon summit. The Strategy is European Union’s answer to many challenges resulting from the economic globalization and the dynamic development of information technologies. The importance of these challenges is paramount. Hence, it has turned out that new strategies based on the principle of balanced development which would modernize the European economy are indispensable. Even though in the last decade of the 20th century integration process of Union’s economies underwent considerable intensification, they still could not outweigh the American economy in the technological race. As a result European economies became less competitive in comparison with the American counterpart. The rise in innovativeness of the EU economies plays a key role in the implementation of the major aims of the Lisbon Strategy. The ability to facilitate those innovations and to put them into practice have crucial importance for minimizing the economic distance between EU and US. The main aim of the paper is to present the innovativeness of European economies and Japan. The paper also evaluates the conditions and effects of the implementation of the strategic objectives of Lisbon Strategy. The paper is divided into four parts. First deals with the characteristics of the role of knowledge-based economy and innovativeness of the economic system in Lisbon Strategy. Second is devoted to the issue of innovativeness of the EU economies as compared to the US and Japan. Third presents evaluation of the Lisbon Strategy implementation. Fourth analyses the renewed Lisbon Strategy

scholarly journals Implementation of the Lisbon Strategy Targets at the Regional Level in the EU and Slovenia

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksander Aristovnik ◽  
Andrej Pungartnik
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Lisbon Strategy ◽  
Monitoring Method ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Time Distance ◽  
The Eu

In 2000, the European Union set itself a target in the Lisbon Strategy to become the most dynamic, competitive and knowledge-based economy in the world in ten years, whereas during the mid-term review, which was held five years later, it redefined its two main objectives: creation of new and better jobs and achievement of stronger, lasting economic growth. This paper aims to study the current situation in the European Union and Slovenia regarding the implementation of the targets of the renewed Lisbon Strategy. The analysis focuses on establishing at what stage the EU is in the attainment of its goals and how successfully it has implemented the strategy at the regional level of the EU Member States. The basic tools in the analysis included the time-distance monitoring method and a presentation of the time lead or lag in the implementation of the selected Lisbon Strategy targets at the NUTS 2 regional level of the enlarged EU and Slovenia.

INNOVATION, PATENTS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (02) ◽  
pp. 279-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
RIFAT A. ATUN ◽  
IAN HARVEY ◽  
JOFF WILD
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
European Union ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Enterprise Value ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Eu

Empirical evidence demonstrates the value of intellectual property (IP) in creating economic growth, enhancing productivity and profitability, and increasing enterprise value. Research and Development (R&D) intensive industries, such as the life sciences, where patents are critical to competition, need an enabling environment to institutionalise innovation and IP generation and reward investments in IP. The US has approached IP strategically and created an IP infrastructure. Japan aims to develop into an "IP nation". China has an increasingly well-developed IP system. In contrast, the European Union (EU), which aims to become the world's leading knowledge-based economy, has a fragmented and expensive system of national patents. It lacks an environment which values investment in IP generation and management. Until recently, the EU enjoyed global competitive advantage in the life sciences, but this advantage has been lost. To regain this competitive advantage the EU must invest substantially in R&D, IP generation and commercialisation of these outputs.

scholarly journals Innowacyjnoœść polskich przedsiębiorstw na tle Unii Europejskiej

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 110-118
Author(s):  
Paweł Mielcarek
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
The Eu

One of the most crucial factors of development of a knowledge-based economy is the innovativeness of enterprises, which leads to the growth the competitiveness of firms and econo-mies. The main goal of the article is to examine the innovativeness of Polish enterprises againstthe backcloth of the European Union and relation of innovativeness and development of knowledge-based economy. According to a study carried out by Eurostat (CIS 4) in the years 2002–-2004, the chief source of innovation in Poland and the entire European Union is enterprises’ inhouse research. A much less significant role is played by higher schools and public R&D units.Polish enterprises are below the EU average, both in terms of the proportion of firms engaged ininnovative activity and the proportion of those which have applied for patents.

scholarly journals The Service Sector of a Knowledge-based Economy – a Comparative Study

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grażyna Węgrzyn
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
Study Objective ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
European Economies ◽  
The Eu

The study objective was identification of the service industries that determine the rate and lines of development of a knowledge-based economy. The analysis covered the EU member countries and the years of 2008-2012. This report consists of four sections. The first one provides the characteristics of a knowledgebased economy and describes the role of services sector in progressing towards this stage of development. The second section offers a classification of services that led to establishing the category of knowledge-based services. The industries classified as knowledge-based services contribute directly to the creation, processing and distribution of knowledge throughout an economy. The following part presents a division of the EU member economies into four groups, depending on their advancement towards the knowledge-based economy as defined by two indices: the Knowledge Economy Index (KEI) and the Knowledge Index (KI). The study concluded on empirical verification of the significance of knowledge-based services within individual European economies. In a knowledge-based economy, where knowledge is the key factor in gaining a competitive advantage, it is just the services related to knowledge acquisition, distribution and creation that drive the economic growth. The development level of service activities classified as knowledge-based services largely determines the economy’s performance in knowledge creation, distribution and use. This is so because these activities directly contribute to the economy’s competitive advantage based on knowledge.

scholarly journals Modern Approach To Organizational Resources Based On The Example Of The Elbląg Furniture Cluster

Equilibrium ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
Rafał Kućmański
Keyword(s):  
The European Union ◽  
Lisbon Strategy ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Modern Approach ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
The World ◽  
New Type ◽  
Sustainable Economic Growth ◽  
Competitive Economy

The Lisbon Strategy, which is implementing a new type of economic policy, is intended to change the economy of the European Union into a knowledge-based economy which will be the most competitive economy in the world. This should lead to sustainable economic growth by, among other things, providing a bigger number of better jobs and greater social cohesion. The issues of the development of competitiveness and innovativeness in European regions, which have their roots in the Lisbon Strategy and have transformed into the Regional Innovation Strategies, have become increasingly popular and significant. One of the tools facilitating this development is undoubtedly the cluster. The purpose of the present article is to outline new approaches to the world economy. It also presents an innovative dimension of co-operation as well as various forms of organizing contemporary entrepreneurship.

scholarly journals The ain impacts of the Lisbon Strategy on tobacco growing

2006 ◽  
pp. 80-87
Author(s):  
Anita Mislovics
Keyword(s):  
Tax Competition ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Lisbon Strategy ◽  
Real Situation ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Tobacco Production ◽  
Manual Labour ◽  
Controversial Industries ◽  
The Eu

The Lisbon Strategy of the EU promises a more competitive Europe with more and better workplaces, in addition to sustainability.Tobacco production is one of the most controversial industries of the agricultural sphere in the European Union. This crop is a „leader” of the world’s economic growth, a promoter of globalisation and has been an economic channel between America and Europe for more than 500 years. It is also a motor of technical development, due to its inducing effect on profitability and work efficiency. The tax competition of the states and the increase in consumption have become such a self-inducing system in which the increase of production created an increasing number of jobs, especially in tobacco growing, where the replacement of manual labour was much slower than the increase of the demand for raw material. The fact that smoking is becoming general should be handled as a social demand, though its health risks cannot be denied. However, the extreme objection to smoking cannot be accepted, especially not when it evokes social strains and concludes that people smoke because of tobacco production, al though the real situation is the opposite: People smoke in Europe, so the tobacco should be grown here, as is in our economic interest.There is a contradiction between the strategic objectives and the roles of the industry which should be ceased urgently. Al thong aim is the creation of jobs, stopping tobacco growing could result in unexpected agro-social disadvantages. Rejection of the industry’s sustainability questions the realization of the keystones of the strategy. Competitiveness, sustainability and social cohesion should be implemented as a unit of the strategy also in tobacco growing.

ICT as an Example of Industrial Policy in EU

2011 ◽  
pp. 1683-1689
Author(s):  
Morten Falch ◽  
Anders Henten
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Policy ◽  
High Growth ◽  
Substantial Part ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Productivity Gains ◽  
The Eu

A substantial part of the economic growth that has taken place within the past 2 decades is related to information and communication technology (ICT). First, the ICT sector itself has achieved very high growth rates. Second, productivity gains in other sectors have been achieved, to a large extent, through implementation of ICT-related innovations. It is, therefore, no surprise that ICT plays an important role in virtually all industrial policy programs. Policies stimulating e-government are one of the ingredients in such programs. In 2000, the leaders of the European Union (EU) adopted the Lisbon strategy to make the EU the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world (CEC, 2000). ICT was seen as a key component in achieving these goals1, and a special program—eEurope—has been designed to realize the Lisbon goals in the ICT area. This program is, however, also a continuation of a wide range of ICT initiatives taken by the EU Commission since 1984.

ICT as an Example of Industrial Policy in EU

2011 ◽  
pp. 947-951
Author(s):  
M. Falch
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Policy ◽  
High Growth ◽  
Substantial Part ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Productivity Gains ◽  
The Eu

A substantial part of the economic growth that has taken place within the past 2 decades is related to information and communication technology (ICT). First, the ICT sector itself has achieved very high growth rates. Second, productivity gains in other sectors have been achieved, to a large extent, through implementation of ICT-related innovations. It is, therefore, no surprise that ICT plays an important role in virtually all industrial policy programs. Policies stimulating e-government are one of the ingredients in such programs. In 2000, the leaders of the European Union (EU) adopted the Lisbon strategy to make the EU the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world (CEC, 2000). ICT was seen as a key component in achieving these goals1, and a special program—eEurope—has been designed to realize the Lisbon goals in the ICT area. This program is, however, also a continuation of a wide range of ICT initiatives taken by the EU Commission since 1984.

ICT as an Example of Industrial Policy in EU

2008 ◽  
pp. 882-888 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morten Falch ◽  
Anders Henten
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Policy ◽  
High Growth ◽  
Substantial Part ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Productivity Gains ◽  
The Eu

A substantial part of the economic growth that has taken place within the past 2 decades is related to information and communication technology (ICT). First, the ICT sector itself has achieved very high growth rates. Second, productivity gains in other sectors have been achieved, to a large extent, through implementation of ICT-related innovations. It is, therefore, no surprise that ICT plays an important role in virtually all industrial policy programs. Policies stimulating e-government are one of the ingredients in such programs. In 2000, the leaders of the European Union (EU) adopted the Lisbon strategy to make the EU the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world (CEC, 2000). ICT was seen as a key component in achieving these goals1, and a special program—eEurope—has been designed to realize the Lisbon goals in the ICT area. This program is, however, also a continuation of a wide range of ICT initiatives taken by the EU Commission since 1984.

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