Europe in 2025
 
Unleashing innovative power

Policy Direction

Ensure that EU and Member State policies enable European companies to maintain and develop their leading role in technology and allow them to capitalise on global opportunities, including by:

Providing further R&D funding, particularly at the initial stages of development of new technologies, followed by suitable funding and delivery of demonstration objects with an emphasis on rapid commercialisation.

Strengthening the link between R&D investment and underlying global economic drivers (megatrends).

Developing an innovation policy that ensures critical mass and fosters early deployment across the Single Market.

Favouring private investment in enabling technologies, infrastructures and services.

Continuing the drive towards energy efficiency and fostering a global market for European green technologies.

Reinvent public procurement

Provide EU funding for European 'lighthouse projects'

Secure stable and adequate EU funding of the European Institute for Innovation and Technology (EIT)

Develop a digital agenda

Reduce CO2 emissions

Boost productivity

Add to societal well-being

Create a Digital Single Market by 2015

Develop a new approach to EU R&D funding

Foster joint research roadmaps

Improve consistency between existing R&D structures

Develop the knowledge triangle

Secure Joint Programming in research

Enhance the management of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)

Ensure reliable risk management