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The European Commission has issued a draft of an innovation strategy, "a 10 point programme for action at national and European levels to foster innovation as a main asset of the EU economy."
Among other things:
The Commission seeks to develop the concept of "lead markets" where public authorities, facilitate industry-led innovation by creating conditions for a successful market uptake of innovative products and services in a focussed way. Primary targets are areas that respond to societal demands (e.g. areas such as transport or health, internal security, eco-innovation, see example below). The Commission calls upon Member States to make the structural reforms necessary to deliver the results required. The Commission underlines that Europe does not need new commitments from Member States but political leadership and decisive action. Details are a bit sketchy, but the whole thing reads like a bad joke -- committees of dysfunctional bureaucracies dominated by special interest groups anxioius to suppress any effort to undermine vested inefficiencies as the engine of innovation? Get real!
If Europe actually wants to do something about innovation, it should cut the yada, yada, yada and and stop the current offensives against Apple and Microsoft, two companies that are actually innovating. And the EU elites could come out strongly against the various "pirate parties" while they are at it.
posted by James DeLong @ 11:56 AM | International
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