scholarly journals EU Innovation Performance Policies and the Economic Crisis: Innovation Policy and the Political Failure of Italy

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Boschele
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Innovation Policy ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Research Area ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Eu Policies ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Political Failure ◽  
The Eu

At EU level, measures to promote research and innovation became concrete with the creation of the European Research Area and the issuing of the White Paper on Governance in 2001. These were measures to tackle low economic growth and unemployment and to boost European innovation with the aid of science and technology. Nevertheless, the economic crisis of late 2008 has halted this process and exposed the lack of convergence across European and neighbour countries in innovative performance. Moreover, economically more affected countries have abandoned innovation policies as part of the austerity policies precisely dictated by the EU bureaucrats. This paper first discusses the EU policies towards the creation of the knowledge society and the effect of the crisis in relation to research and development. Secondly, the paper will analyze the case of Italy and how it has failed to keep up with some of its other European neighbours in terms of investment on knowledge, arguing that lack of such investment make countries less equipped and more dependent on knowledge generated in other places.

scholarly journals Strategic Directions of Ukraine's Integration into the Educational, Research and Innovation Areas of the EU

2021 ◽  
pp. 175-183
Author(s):  
О. Vyshnevskyi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Research Area ◽  
High Tech ◽  
European Research Area ◽  
European Research ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Eu

The purpose of the article is to determine the strategic directions for the integration of educational, research and innovation areas of Ukraine into the corresponding areas of the EU, taking into account the economic interests of Ukraine. These areas can be delimited from each other by the product they create. The product of the educational area is the reproduction of existing knowledge, of the research area is the creation of new knowledge (novation), of the innovation area – innovation. With regard to areas, three types of integration can be proposed: (1) complete; (2) partial; (3) element-wise. Complete integration of the two areas provides for the formation of a single institutional environment and the corresponding links. In this case, there is an institutional absorption of one area by another. Partial integration of areas will take place through their intersection. In this case, new elements are formed, which simultaneously have connections corresponding to the first and second areas, and the institutional environment becomes mixed. Element-wise integration occurs when elements from one area are integrated into another area. For instance, a researcher or student from country A migrates to country B for permanent residence. Based on statistical observations for 2013-2019 it can be argued that the results of the activities of the Ukrainian research area are used to a greater extent in the EU than the results of the EU research area in Ukraine. And ultimately, novations created in the Ukrainian research area are transformed into innovations in the European innovation area and returned (imported) to Ukraine in the form of final high-tech products. From the standpoint of ensuring the economic growth of Ukraine, the current path of integration processes is not optimal. The transformation of the Ukrainian educational, research and innovation areas into the subareas of the EU ensures, first of all, the economic growth (on an innovative basis) of the EU, and not of Ukraine. So, given that the European research area is only an instrument for achieving certain EU goals, then the unconditional inclusion of Ukraine to this instrument turns the Ukrainian area into its component. For the Ukrainian economy, the optimal strategic direction for integrating the educational, research and innovation areas of Ukraine and the EU is their synthesis through the creation of a single space at the intersection of the areas of Ukraine and the EU, as well as element-wise integration from the areas of the EU into the areas of Ukraine. As a result, the Roadmap for Ukraine’s Integration into the European Research Area requires revision.

scholarly journals Cybersecurity post-COVID-19: Lessons learned and policy recommendations

European View ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 178168582110592
Author(s):  
Iva Tasheva
Keyword(s):  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Innovation Policy ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

This article looks at the impact of the novel coronavirus crisis and increased remote work on cybersecurity and the priorities for EU action. Actions should include improving the cybersecurity of businesses, critical infrastructure and users, and creating an EU cybersecurity industry. As more and more aspects of our lives happen online, we are becoming more vulnerable to malicious attacks. This was demonstrated in 2020 when cyber-attacks increasingly disrupted the work of hospitals, service providers, government services and businesses across the globe. The frequency and scale of the attacks created a sense of urgency to improve our cybersecurity resilience. This article argues that the EU should reap the benefits of cybersecurity by pursuing a more ambitious cybersecurity agenda and putting EU values at the core of its approach. It also calls for cybersecurity to be included in all EU pillars, including the EU industrial research and innovation policy, as well as in EU investment plans and diplomatic strategy.

scholarly journals The European Research Area: in quest of the Lisbon goals

2009 ◽  
pp. 73-79
Author(s):  
József Mikita
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
European Research Area ◽  
European Research ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
The Eu

strong educational and scientific knowledge basie is one of Europe's traditional key assets that has made it possible for our continent to become world class in several research fields. Despite these great achievements, the position of the European research and technological development (RTD) potential is currently being challenged by a rapidly changing global competition, including the two main rivals, the US and Japan. The European Union (EU) is behind these countries as regards research and innovation output. Moreover, European research is faced with theimplications of globalisation of markets and industries, digitalisation and new technologies, as well as a need to address societal issues such as an ageing population or climate change.At the same time, the European Union (EU) is facing the uneven distribution of RTD capacities and excellence within its own borders, especially the EU12 countries are lagging behind in thisrespect.In order to meet this twofold challenge the EU has to step up its efforts for the creation of a legitimate "European Research Area" that will make the EU more competitive on the international scene, and also encourage the less developed EU member states to invest more and better into research and innovation.

scholarly journals EVOLUTION OF OPEN SCIENCE TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES

2021 ◽  
pp. 293-298
Author(s):  
Yuliia Nosenko
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Data Exchange ◽  
Innovation Policy ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Grant Support ◽  
Registration Number ◽  
Research And Innovation Policy

Building a global information space and Knowledge Society, the European community is developing a priority area for research and innovation policy – the Open Science, which, among other things, provides open access to publications and research results. When developing this direction in Ukraine, it is expedient to take into account the experience of successful countries, global transformations and trends, digital progress, and historical lessons. The article’s purpose is to substantiate the periodization and determine the stages of evolution of open science tools and technologies in the world. The article presents some results of the research within the project «Cloud-oriented systems of open science in teaching and professional development of teachers» (registration number 2020.02/0310) implemented with grant support from the National Research Fund of Ukraine. Theoretical methods are used: historical-pedagogical method, generalization of scientific and scientific-methodical sources, analysis and systematization of concepts, works of Ukrainian and foreign scientists, experts in the field of digitalization of education and science. The periodization of the evolution of open science tools and technologies has been developed. The first stage was characterized by a sharp increase in data and knowledge flows, the emergence of the first initiatives to ensure the availability of scientific and cultural achievements of humankind. The second stage was characterized by the intensification of the process of transition of journals and scientific repositories to the open format, the development and dissemination of software to support open access, the development of cloud computing and Web 2.0 technology. The result of the third period was the intensive development of scientific-educational environments, due to the processes of digitization, increasing trends: open access, archiving of articles, data exchange.

Getting Cozy, or How the European Commission Produces Legitimacy in the EU

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Hensell
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
Innovation Policy ◽  
Collaborative Activity ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Original Insight ◽  
Research And Innovation Policy ◽  
Organized Interest ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Do So

Abstract International organizations increasingly resort to strategies of legitimation in order to justify their authority and policies. This article explores one such strategy of the European Commission that targets organized interest groups with the aim to build a legitimating constituency. The members of this constituency not only contribute expertise to a policy, but also benefit from that policy and, therefore, participate in the development and confirmation of a claim to the policy's legitimacy that is put forward by EU officials. As a consequence, the agents seeking legitimacy and the addressees granting it become closely associated and “get cozy” with each other. EU officials address their claim to legitimacy to a community of co-opted elites who are likely to confirm this claim and in whose own interests it is to do so. The result is legitimation as a collaborative activity with preordained outcomes. Taking the case of the European Commission's research and innovation policy, and building in part on an ethnographic practitioner's account, the article provides an original insight into how this legitimation strategy works in everyday EU policymaking.

Nationalistic Independent Movements Within the European Union and Its Challenge to Create a Territorial Identity

2020 ◽  
pp. 283-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Demi Wilhelmina Maria van Huisseling
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
European Identity ◽  
Main Question ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Territorial Identity ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Eu

Throughout history, humanity has been known to move in groups as a way of surviving, to expand their identity and culture. In Europe this has led to international and civil wars in the past but changed with the creation of the European Union. This chapter analyzes the creation and demarcation of nations during the past, the territorial identity that was formed and the need of the EU to create a European Identity to overcome the threat of independent movements. Secessionist nationalistic movements have gained importance since the economic crisis which started in 2007 and have been rising in different regions and countries of the EU. The main question that needs to be solved in this chapter: How does the EU cope with the rise of new nationalistic movements? It can only be overcome with the creation of a European territorial identity.

Smart specialisation as a new concept of the EU regional innovation policy

Ergo ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-20
Author(s):  
Vladislav Čadil
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Policy ◽  
Research Development ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Smart Specialisation ◽  
Europe 2020 ◽  
Europe 2020 Strategy ◽  
Eu Policies ◽  
Programming Period ◽  
The Eu

Smart specialisation is a main pillar of the Europe 2020 strategy, which creates the basic strategic framework for individual EU policies including the cohesion policy and the research, development and innovation policy for the new programming period. The concept can be defined as a discovery of national/regional strengths in the field of research, development and innovation. Its key characteristic is an accent on innovation and concentration of human and financial resources allocated to research and development into several globally competitive fields, which can become a basis for the next economic growth and prosperity. Each region or state should prepare new innovation strategies based on smart specialisation since such strategies are conditionality for negotiation of new operational programmes. Because the concept is relatively new in the Czech Republic, the article aims at introducing it on the basis of foreign literature and official EU documents, and discussing some problems that should be taken into account in designing the strategy.

Implementacja polityk unijnych w Polsce i pozostałych krajach członkowskich, z perspektywy kryzysu w UE

2015 ◽  
pp. 70-89
Author(s):  
Renata Mieńkowska
Keyword(s):  
Member State ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Eu Law ◽  
Member States ◽  
Implementation Challenges ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Eu Policies ◽  
The Eu

In the article the author analyses the most important challenges of implementation of the EU policies in the member states during the EU economic crisis. The main aspects analysed in the article are: major problems faced by the EU member states in the context of the crisis regarding implementation of the EU law, changes in the mechanisms of implementation, challenges for the Eurozone in a time of crisis, comitology procedures and their meaning during the crisis. The article contains recommendations regarding implementation of the EU law for decision-makers on both the EU and member state levels.

scholarly journals Formation of a European Research Area in Evolution of Legal Regulation of European Research

2019 ◽  
pp. 142-152
Author(s):  
V. Yu. Slepak ◽  
A. A. Ariyants
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Research Area ◽  
European Research Area ◽  
European Research ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
The Eu

Since the end of the 20th century in Europe, there has been a tendency to accumulate scientific knowledge, increase the level of competitiveness of European research and the mobility of scientists themselves. The goals and objectives set by the European Union are realized through the creation of a single European research area and the implementation of special framework programs. It is determined that today the European Union is one of the world leaders in research and innovation. It is scientific knowledge, experience, high standards of research, developed research infrastructure that guarantee many years of successful cooperation between the EU and other countries. Contacts between Russia and the EU in the field of scientific and technical cooperation are developing quite actively. Both in the EU and in Russia, the development of effective innovation policies and programs is important for the development of a knowledge-based economy and an increase in the efficiency of investments in research and development.

scholarly journals “HORIZON 2020”: ENHANCEMENT OF INNOVATIVENESS IN UKRAINE

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetyana Marchenko
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Policy ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Framework Programme ◽  
Practical Result ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
The Eu

The aim of the article is to study some aspects of the participation of Ukraine in the European innovation programmes, particularly in the Framework programme for research and technological development and to consider factors that contribute to the attractiveness of these programmes for Ukraine and possible risks associated with the implementation of EU policies in the field of science in Ukrainian reality. The methodological basis of research constitute the historical and logical and systematic approaches in the study of patterns of innovation development in the context of economic growth and increase competitiveness. Actuality of this theme is explained by the creation of the global information society, the incipience of the new technological production method and by wide development of innovative cooperation between countries. Such collaboration, as a rule, promotes comprehensive expansion of trade, mutual investing in national production complexes, wide integration. The results of the analysis. Basic features, components and the role of European framework programme for research and innovation “Horizon 2020” for European Research Area’s creating were analyzed. Ukraine’s involvement in the process of international scientific and technical integration and economic component of Ukraine's participation in European framework programme for research and innovation “Horizon 2020” were investigated. The main priorities of national innovation policy were defined and measures concerning Ukraine’s innovative potential activation and improvement through participation in European innovative programmes were proposed. International innovative programs will promote adaptation of the country to the EU norms and standards, increase mobility of Ukrainian experts, researchers and educators in the European space, speed up European integration. Full participation in the Framework Programme “Horizon 2020” projects would attract countries to the advanced technology of its scientific potential, additional financing of the Ukrainian research organizations and institutions involved in joint projects. Scientific novelty of the research results consists of predicting a possible increase innovation potential of the economy of Ukraine based on the study of international innovation programmes as a factor of integration of Ukraine into the EU. The practical significance of the results consists of importance of theoretical propositions, conclusions and recommendations for practical application of these results in the learning process, the development and improvement of certain legislative acts of Ukraine and to justify special measures for government agencies to address the problems associated with the innovative development of Ukraine. Conclusions and directions of further researches. The practical result of international cooperation Ukraine should be achievement standards of innovative progress inherent in the developed world. These standards are primarily related to the rationalization of energy consumption and using natural resources, technology standards, legal protection of intellectual property, international quality standards, certification of products and services. With appropriate adaptation in Ukraine, it is possible to use the EU strategic instruments, in particular the "open method of coordination", which will enable Ukraine to study the experience of other countries, as well as exchange of innovative practices. In the future, it is worth exploring the ways of adaptation and implementation of EU strategic tools in Ukraine, which will provide the basis for the implementation of the programme initiatives of the “Europe 2020” Strategy.

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