Recommendations by a Business Panel on future EU innovation policy Supported by an online debate at http://blogs. ec. europa. eu/innovationunlimited/We propose to base EU action around compelling social challenges
Information technologies and web 2. 0 tools are transforming how people interact. Open innovation is based on the power of networks and access to knowledge across Europe and globally.
and require data to be published in web-enabled formats, to allow new combinations and empower citizens to co-create new services.
and citizen engagement and encouraging new ways for people to use the web to support one another.
Information technologies and web 2. 0 tools are transforming how people interact, not withstanding the necessity of physical space and meetings for the exchange of ideas and collaboration.
Information technologies and web 2. 0 tools give new opportunities to increase cross innovation between companies
and exploiting the potential of Web 2. 0. We as individuals and collectively must move to come up with creative solutions to the major challenges facing us.
P. 1. 3. Broadband Deployment The deployment of industrial broadband is essential to ensure that companies located on industrial sites around the country have access to high-capacity infrastructure.
P. 1. 3. Broadband Deployment The deployment of industrial broadband is essential to ensure that companies located on industrial sites around the country have access to high-capacity infrastructure.
the Register has been available in English and Hungarian on the web since April 2011. It contains 63 Research Infrastructures of Strategic Importance (SRIS)
and more specifically for the Central and Eastern European region, that after Hungary, together with the Czech republic and Romania has won the site tender invited related to the ELI project,
FAIR FAIR is a legally independent, extreme intensity heavy-ion and antiproton accelerator and storage ring system under construction in the GSI site of Darmstadt with the cooperation of 8 EU member states
at the site of GANIL centre will enable the production of radioactive beams of rare isotopes.
TRANSFAC The TRANSFAC database contains the binding sites of transcription factors in promoters and enhancers in case of eukaryotic genes.
TRANSFAC is one of the largest databases collecting the binding sites of transcription factors and transcription factors that are updated regularly and several times a year.
The TRANSFAC database can be considered the most extensive database of a wide range of species with detailed information on numerous transcription factors, promoter regions, binding sites and other related information.
-25 april 2012 Science in Society website: http://ec. europa. eu/research/science-society Research and Innovation policy DOI 10.2777/11739 European union, 2012 Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged Cover image Doudou,#40440446,2012.
and service delivery and business processes, requires companies to respond to global megatrends such as the cloud, web based delivery, big data, mobile commerce, cost of energy, technology pace and globalisation/localisation.
and service delivery and business processes, requires companies to respond to global megatrends such as the cloud, web based delivery, big data, mobile commerce, cost of energy, technology pace and globalisation/localisation.
astronomy Integrated in a network with other scientific and technological sites (university campus, observatories, etc) Excellence+differentiation:
large scale questionnaires (web-based or surveys) and personal interviews (face-to-face, telephone, or in working groups). A key feature brought in by these European union-sponsored exercises was the introduction of external experts in this analytical phase.
see more details on the FOREN website. For RIS3, foresight studies would ideally combine regional expertise with international expertise able to put regional assets in perspective with wider trends. 22 Neffke F. and Svensson Henning M. 2009
attractive and dynamic web pages, including parts in English for wider dissemination; newsletters and leaflets to complete the information with traditional communication tools;
visiting the sites, marketing of the participants to the project; press conferences (various with different scenarios;
At the end of the day regions contributed to producing a system with too many small sites doing the same things
and intervention logic. 38 For further guidance, please look at Inforegio website: -Monitoring and evaluation of European Cohesion policy ERDF and Cohesion fund, Concepts and recommendations, Guidance document.
and is available at the website of the Platform 69 demonstrators for promoting Key Enabling Technologies
http://ec. europa. eu/enterprise/policies/innovation/policy/lead-market-initiative/48 http://www. europe-innova. eu/web/guest/home 49 http
Regional Partner Facilities (RPF) 61 which are associated facilities with pan-European single site or distributed Research Infrastructures,
and outermost regions, do not often have ambitions to host the site and/or to coordinate a large multidisciplinary infrastructure.
'Available on the website of the Smart Specialisation Platform, 72 University Business Forum: A platform to promote cooperation between HEI and businesses at European level, 73 Marie Curie Initial Training Networks Industrial doctorates:
80 Estimated by the EC between EUR 180 and 270 billion. 81 See EU Broadband good practice site:
to support web entrepreneur camps, good practices exchange, peer review, studies, regular mapping of infrastructure, monitoring
These might include pilot plants and demonstration sites, proof of concept and early stage financing incubation facilities, applied research,
artificial intelligence, WEB technologies (web mining), robotics, integrated systems, producing systems and planning production systems, calculation systems, voice recognition, images'processing, graphics processing, telemonitoring
, Romania, lavricvictor@yahoo. com 718 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 8th INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE"MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT",November 6th-7th, 2014, BUCHAREST, ROMANIA (4
In the tourism cluster, promotion and management of archaeological sites, promotion of regional spas as cross-border medical tourism destinations,
Web portals; Computer programming activities; networks of the future, networked marketing and media and 3d internet, flexible organic and large area electronics, personal health and preventive care systems, research and innovation IT network, etc.
important cultural and historical sites Develop integrated tourism packages Use of national resources and regional brand products Develop eco-tourism
The important cultural and archeological sites located in this part of the country need to be included in a common integrated thematic itinerary
including the historical urban centers and sites, and the specific tourism assets. By investing in this direction,
introduction of digital Marketing and Web 2. 0; and development of low cost software management systems of for small 166.
cultural and historical assets, including mountainous regions and thermal waters as well as important historical sites and monuments.
and promote projects to rehabilitate the historical sites and to modernize medical facilities in spa resorts.
promoting and developing cultural and national heritage Improvement of natural sites with tourism potential Valorization of touristic potential in mountainous areas by construction of the necessary infrastructure:
and spas List of preselected projects identified in the Regional Development Plan for more than 5 mil Euro Call for projects for a budget under 5 mil Euro Number of visits at supported sites 3
and iii) significant number of archeological sites. In order to exploit their potential with a view of promoting economic growth in the region,
and the local administration where the archeological sites are located; o Draft of strategies for the two types of clusters
According to data reported by internet providers in June, 2008, in Romania, there were approximately 2, 27 million broadband access connections to the internet provided at fixed points, with 760,000 more than in the similar period of 2007 (1, 51 millions) and 1,
and services (i e. secure Web services in EU) to enjoy high levels of security and confidence, a balanced regulatory framework with well defined rights,
53,5 Staff using internet 42,7 43,8 Companies with website 66,6 67,0 Companies using digital signature 28,0 24,4 Employees who received ICT training 13,8 17,4 Net
chairman of the US Atomic energy commission, 1954 5 http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Automatic meter reading 6 See case study
http://ec. europa. eu/energy/gas electricity/smartgrids/doc/mission. pdf. SGTF website http://ec. europa. eu/energy/gas electricity/smartgrids/taskforce en
http://static. euractiv. com/sites/all/euractiv/files/EED. en12. doc 32 http://sedc--coalition. eu/2012/07/13/press-release--energy-efficiency
e g. controlling demand response at the 58 See also http://www. europeanenergyreview. eu/site/pagina. php?
/http://it. answers. yahoo. com/question/index? qid=20110420052340aact417; 65 delibera 292/06 66 http://www. addressfp7. org,(Valtorta et al.
The EU Smart Grids Debate 34 References For convenience, web references and EU documents are given as web links in the footnotes.
Microgrids at Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, p. website. http://der. lbl. gov/.OECD, 2010. Cities and Climate Change.
website for smart specialisation. Benchmarking analysis on priority setting, policy objectives and measures, monitoring and evaluation systems.
80 km in the north of Zaragoza the technological park AULA DEI http://www. zaxpark. com/web/guest with a strong focus on agrofood
available On the Web portal Aragon participa Place-based dimension of the RIS3 How can Aragon use innovation to address the challenges?
Información Universidad de Oviedo, ver web http://www. uniovi. es 13:00-18:00 Reunión de trabajo en el IDEPA Expert Assessment
Páginas web propias de los Parques Científicos y Tecnológicos. CLÚSTERS El Clúster Aeronáutico de Castilla tiene como uno de región.
Típicamente el desarrollo de las página web del sector tanto en la vertiente y privada, ha ido evolucionando con rapidez
relevancia de los seguidores de la web y/o del contenido en los medios y redes sociales, la estrategia adoptada
8%cuenta con una conexión de Banda ancha y el 21%cuenta con página Web.
-Respecto a la utilización de la administración electrónica por los ciudadanos podemos ciudadanos ha obtenido información de páginas web de la
/ANEXOS uciones isponibilidad GHZ. las CCAA. de normas, estándares y herramientas. grama certifiquen que un sitio web ofrece al ciudadano
Castilla-La Mancha en redes donde los operadores no están r proveedores a través de internet y tecnologías web, y realizando sus
mer FORTALEZAS/ANEXOS la concienciación de la población. web ofrece al ciudadano garantías de toma de decisiones. rural.
es Actividades de Comunicación y Publicidadris3 Castilla 1 Página Web de la RIS3 2 Comunicación en medios de comunicación 3
Ríos Defez Jesús Ochoa Bleda ESCUDO WEB SOFTWARE SLNE Centro de Innovación de Infraestructuras Inteligentes Lorente Piqueras S. A. Luis
Puesta en marcha de la web RIS3 en el Portal de la Consejería de Educación, Cultura y Deportes.
elaboraci web Reuni Transferencia de Tecnolog para presentar los trabajos realizados en la RIS3 hasta la fecha.
Montero Francisco José Ríos Defez Grupo In-Nova Samuel Álvarez González IDN Servicios Integrales S l Antonio Jesús Ochoa Bleda ESCUDO WEB
Del mismo modo, a través de la Web Institucional, el Gobierno regional ciudadana, habilitando para ello cuestionarios de opinión y participación.
-Página web-Jornadas-Cursos y seminarios. Medida 1. 3: Normativa de reformulación del A través de esta estrategia de especialización, la Comisión regional de Ciencia y Tecnología promoverá la adopción
-Que los ciudadanos de la región tengan disponibles el 100 y de sus documentos para descargar en la web.
a) Promover los alojamientos rurales conectados, para la informatización de la gestión, mejora de la web y marketing online. b) Creación
-Página Web-Seminario de Presentación-Identidad Corporativa-Jornadas Anuales RIS3 CLM-Creación de un Boletín informativo-Realización de un catálogo
CEI3 M 1. 4 Colaboración público-M 1. 5 privada EUROCOPTER M 1. 6 WEB PÚBLICA CTI-EMPRENDE M 1. 7 Normativa de reformulación
y pyme) Programa de alojamientos rurales conectados, para la informatización de la gestión, mejora de la web marketing online Creación de
Actividades de Comunicación y Publicidad 2020 1 Página Web de la RIS3 2 Comunicación en medios de comunicación 3 Seminario
Publicidad-RIS3 Castilla-La Mancha 2014 CLM oambiente Investigación reforzar la iarios 2014-RIS3 CASTILLA-LA MANCHA 5. Página Web
El sitio web del programa se actualizará regu los actores del sistema de I+D+i y referidos a las actividades innovadoras que
Es deseable que las páginas web de todos aquellos actores Castilla-La Mancha prevean enlaces directos a este sitio. 6. Comunicación en
región (conferencias de prensa y difusión de la información (radio, TV, prensa escrita, páginas web, etc.
encuentros entre promotores de proyectos, conferencias de prensa etc. 144 Castilla-La Mancha Se ha incorporado en la Web institucional del
que incluirá aspectos de información y comunicación cuatrimestral, de la RIS3 de Castilla podrá descargar en la página web, o
web concesión así como el procedimiento de otorgamiento Castilla-La Mancha Castilla-La regionales, drá web.
y la evaluación se determinan los siguientes ind ACTUACIONES Página WEB RIS3 CLM Difusión en los medios de comunicación Jornada
IMPACTO N de visitas Grado de utilización y accesibilidad sitio WEB N de ruedas de prensa y notas de prensa n
RIS3 CASTILLA-LA MANCHA 6. Cuadro resumen plan de comunicación Destina tarios Actuaciones Objetivos Estratégicos Beneficiarios directos público en general Página WEB
Cultura y Deportes N de eventos realizados Indicadores de Impacto Grado de utilización y accesibilidad sitio WEB n de ciudadanos que
The NRC on Human Evolution (CENIEH), linked to the Atapuerca archaeological site, and the Centre for Ultrashort Ultraintense Pulsed Lasers (CLPU) in Salamanca.
brokering services and trading sites aimed at SMES (Gann and Dodgson (2007: 12). Notions such as user innovation (Von Hippel, 2005) and‘user-led innovation'highlight the source from
Google, for example, tested Gmail, Google Circles and Google+in this way. Summarizing a decade of innovation research around the impact of digital technologies,
and by the perceived‘read-write'characteristics associated with Web 2. 0 and social media (Chadwick, 2009).
A number of initiatives are emerging at local government level12 in Europe in terms of interactive webs, wikis,
Pioneering private sector firms like Google and Dyson demonstrate an enlightened sense of self-interest when they give talented employees
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New approaches to transforming public services http://www. nesta. org. uk/sites/default/files/social innovation policy brief cover. pdf Noya A. ed.)(2009) The Changing Boundaries of Social Enterprises.
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OECD. Available for download at: http://www. oecd. org/fr/sti/ieconomie/participativewebandusercreatedcontentweb20wikisandsocialnetworking. htm OECD (2008b)‘ Shaping Policies for the Future of the internet economy'.
Incases wherethisinformationwasnotavailablefromcurrentcompanies'websites, orifthecompanies'websiteswerenolongeractive, the Internetarchive'swaybackmachinewasusedtovisitthepast websites (Yadavetal. 2007). ) Dataon firms'inventiveportfolios wascollectedusingpatstat.
<http://www. wipo. int/export/sites/www/freepublications/en/licen sing/903/wipo pub 903. pdf>.Wooldridge, J. M.,2002.
websites and teaching materials, provided that suitable acknowledgment of OECD as source and copyright owner is given.
significantly enhance their web facilities, and engage in e-business capabilities to help reduce their costs
In order to create national coherence and synergies between the centres, a common webpage, telephone number, user evaluation system, intranet, competencies development programme,
next-generation localisation and sensor webs. ii) Technology Transfer Offices (TTOS) A fund of EUR 30 million has been made available to improve the knowledge flow between higher education and the enterprise sector.
but instead requires a web of relationships among firms, research organisations and governments. Knowledge flows are the quintessence of an innovation system,
Green Specific skills to modify products, services or operations due to climate change adjustments, requirements or regulations (e g. water purification and site remediation planning/engineering in mining, solar panels
The website of the project (www. ccss. jhu. edu/index. php? section=content&view=9&sub=10 accessed on 28 october 2009) reports that:
five-year IDA pilot project with 13 competitively selected community partner sites operating 14 programmes in a mix of urban and rural locations across the country.
In this case a web based platform has opened up the boundaries of donation mechanisms to support among others also social enterprises and socially innovative initiatives.
and power of Web 2. 0. It was founded as a mission-based, for-profit enterprise, in Dublin in 2005 by a serial entrepreneur, Peter Conlon,
After four years of building the ammado platform the site was launched in June 2008 and is currently available in 12 languages (Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, traditional and simplified Chinese) connecting individuals from 130 countries
The integration of company profiles, vast and various web tools and a secure donation interface called the Giving Circle make ammado a one-stop shop. ammado facilitates charitable contributions from everyone, worldwide,
A wave of response from Italians and others around the world wanting to send immediate relief was being thwarted by a series of difficulties on the IRC site,
from language (many 2nd 3rd generation Italians do not have command enough of the language to navigate an Italian-language site) to payment methods accepted (to date,
many Italian npo sites require a bank transfer or Italian credit card, limiting international donations. As a stopgap, The irish Red cross and American Red cross accepted donations through ammado and spread the word about their initiative.
and can sit on any website, blog or social network profile that can accept embeddable HTML.
and there without navigating away from the site/blog. In 2008, Edelman Goodpurpose released a study on Mutually beneficial marketing:
The Pracatum website reports that the process of partnership with public and private institutions with the involvement of the population provides social change in national underserved communities
One important site for social innovation is the workplace. Workplace innovation has been defined as: a social, participatory process which shapes work organization and working life, combining human, organizational and technological dimensions and resulting in a better quality of working life (Oeij, Klein Hesselink, and Dhondt 2012.
The development of the Internet and more particularly social networking sites opened up vast opportunities for user-led innovation that ranges from political activism (the Arab spring,
Numerous applications, including Mozilla, Open-office, Wikipedia, Linux (to name only a few), were developed collaboratively by Open source Community programmers and volunteers.
Therefore, the new technology co-creation community ethos of the Web 2. 0 social media dialog questions not only the developer user/producer consumer dichotomy
or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission.
and manage a web-based digital city that connects entrepreneurs to influential factors of innovation (e g.,
and digital city in designing a web-based digital city as a means of connecting individuals to influential factors of innovation and,
and manage a web-based digital city that connects entrepreneurs to influential factors of innovation
. & Hayes, J. 2003), Transit Oriented Sustainable Urban Developments-Enhancing Community Consultation through Web Based Virtual Environments, Association for Computing Machinery Inc.,ACM Press, 271
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and Web Usage. He has published papers in journals such as Communications of the ACM and Human Systems Management.
and automotive app store based connectivity applications will become a common site on our roads of the future,
web browsing and access to content to be downloaded in all connected devices under the same network.
and the areas and sectors that are poised for the highest growth. 3 Power Patients proactively make use of Google
Groupon's collaborative business model is an excellent example of this, which uses collective bargaining over the internet to bring down the prices of services,
With the internet of things (Iot), web connected products with smartphone apps or access to social networks are increasingly becoming important drivers for Social Innovation as they offer new solutions and accessibility to society.
For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at http://www. hitachi. com. Auckland Bahrain Bangkok Beijing Bengaluru Bogotá Buenos aires Cape town Chennai Colombo Delhi/NCR
dir@sera. ie Website: www. sera. ie Submission on the Draft Consultation Paper for the Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 February 2014 Page 2 1. Introduction As part of the ongoing process
including private ICT companies such as Google, Hewlett packard, Microsoft, Accenture and Samsung. The pledges also come from universities, academies and local governments as well as national coalitions
Startup Europe introduced a commission one-stop website for entrepreneurs. Other forums include the Web Investors Forum,
a crowdfunding network and Tech Allstars group run by DG Connect. The conference was chosen to Continued on Page 5 Euractiv ESKILLS FOR GROWTH SPECIAL REPORT 5-9 may 2014 5 launch Watify
Google handles more than a billion searches in the United states every day and stores them all. It took the 50 million most commonly searched terms between 2003 and 2008
Google's system could work in near-real time. Google ran all the terms through an algorithm a way of making a calculation-that ranked the terms by how well they correlated with flu outbreaks.
Then, the system tried combining the terms. With a billion searches a day it would have been impossible for a person to guess which ones might work best.
Google identified 45 terms that strongly coincided with CDC's data on flu outbreaks. The Google trends method has been criticised,
because its been wrong in some instances. However that is not the whole story. It's only been wrong like a weather forecast is wrong,
and financial aspects 4 No No Donath (1999) Customer understanding, marketing tactics, corporate governance and intranet/extranet capabilities 4 No No Mahadevan (2000) Value stream,
we can‘‘mash up''digital services like Google's maps and Facebook's social newsfeed in no time and on a shoestring budget.
Seven out of 10 of them have a website. -The percentage of companies with 10 or more employees using mobile broadband rises four points,
75.8%of companies with Internet access had a website. In those with 250 or more employees, this percentage reached 95.7%.
38.0 37.5 39.5 47.0%of companies with an Internet connection and website (1) 75.8 73.4 87.5 95.7%of companies that provide their employees with portable devices that allow a mobile connection to the Internet for business
an increase of nearly four points in the use of mobile broadband and in the possession of a website can be observed.
Internet connection and Website (1) Mobile telephone broadband connection (1) Use of the Internet to interact with the Public Administration (1) Fixed broadband connection (1)( 1) Percentage over the total number
23.7 21.0 35.8 50.6 Website availability and use The main services offered by companies with 10
or more employees via their website were company introduction (90.5%),privacy policy statement or certification related to website security (65.2%)and access to catalogues and price lists (52.8%).
%)Services available on the website Percentage over the total number of companies with 10 or more employees and an Internet connection First Quarter 2014 Company introduction 90.5 Privacy policy statement or certification
related to website security 65.2 Access to product catalogues or price lists 52.8 Links or references to the social media profiles of the company 34.7 Possibility of electronic submission of complaint forms 26.4 Posting vacancies
or receiving online job applications 21.1 Ordering or booking online 16.9 Online order tracking 11.1 Website customisation for regular users 8. 4 Possibility of customers customising or designing
The main objectives were obtaining information from the websites of the Public Administrations (80%%downloading of forms (78.2),
Among them, 92.4%used social networks (Facebook, Linkedin, Tuenti, Google+,Viadeo, Yammer...40.9%used company blogs or microblogs (Twitter, Presently, Blogger, Typepad etc.
and 39.6%did so with websites that share multimedia content (Youtube, Flickr, Picassa, Slideshare, Instagram...
The social media least used were based Wiki tools for sharing knowledge (website whose pages may be edited by multiple volunteers via a web browser),
representing 12.9%.%The main uses of social media were aimed towards marketing, advertising and image management (72.1%)and as a user information channel (56.8%).
Internet connection, Interaction with the Public Administrations, Mobile broadband, Website, Use of Social media and Cloud computing. First quarter 2014 Internet connection Interaction with the Public Administration (1) Mobile Broadband
Connection (1) Internet connection and Website (1) Use of Social media (1) Cloud computing (1) TOTAL 98.3 91.1 78.3 75.8 36.9 15.0 Andalucía 97.6 94.4
) Percentage over the total number of companies with an Internet connection Use of ICT by Autonomous Community and Autonomous City in which the company is headquartered 6 Use of Internet, Website and Mobile broadband by Autonomous Community
Cataluña Asturias, Principado de Mobile broadband Internet and website 7 E-commerce Sales via e-commerce by companies with 10 or more employees 17.8%of companies with 10 or more employees carried out
as compared with 14.0%from the previous year. 12.2%of companies carried out sales via electronic commerce on a website.
as compared with 20.3%the previous year. 26.9%of companies carried out purchases via electronic commerce on a website.
10 28.7%of companies with Internet access had a website. One year prior, this percentage was 29.3%.
and website/webpage (1) 29.3 28.7 (1) Percentage over the total number of companies with less than 10 employees and an Internet connection Evolution of ICT use in companies with fewer than 10 employees
from 56.8%to 66.4%.29.3%56.8%61.4%94.2%28.7%66.4%66.2%92.8%0 25 50 75 100 Internet connection and website (1) Mobile broadband
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