INNOVATION POLICY Sample Clauses

INNOVATION POLICY. Deriving from the OECD Reviews of Innovation Policy: Slovenia (OECD, 2012), Slovenia should first and foremost address the following issues: improving the framework conditions for innovations; strengthening the human resources base for science, technology and innovation; improving governance of the innovation system and general governance; the alignment of policies and specific policy instruments; the management of universities and public research organisations; performance of evaluations; strengthening of innovations for the business sector; the reinforcement of links within the innovation system; work on xxxxxxxx xxxx; excellence and the relevance of public research, and improving the benefits of internationalising R&D activities and innovation. Another of Slovenia’s objective is to increase the share of innovation-active enterprises, which stood at 49.4% in the 2008–2010 period, 3.5 percentage points below the EU average. The share of these enterprises was higher in processing activities (54.4%), while it only reached 44.7% in service activities. New technologies generate an array of opportunities for innovations in all economic activities; however, service enterprises tend to engage in non-technological innovations almost three times as much as in technological innovations. While certain innovation policy measures do produce good results in terms of increased numbers of patents or scientific publications, others perform worse as regards the application of new knowledge through the sale of new products and services in domestic and foreign markets. Investments in non-technological innovation have also decreased considerably.32 Against the backdrop of serious contractions of technologically less complex and less competitive branches of processing activities during the crisis, the share of technologically complex branches grew considerably in the 2008– 2010 period and surpassed the EU average. However, the technological structure of goods export still lags behind the EU average33, which should be improved in the future. There is still considerable room for improvement in searching for opportunities for joint investments of national and international sources in the field of RDI, in particular in smart specialisation. Better cooperation between domestic and foreign (large) enterprises with SMEs and start-ups should be established in order to help SMEs integrate into global value chains and facilitate their internationalisation. Eco-innovations and the develo...
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INNOVATION POLICY. “Innovation policy may […] be understood as actions by public organizations that influence innovation processes, i.e. the development and diffusion of innovations” (Xxxxxxx/Za- bala-Iturriagagoitia 2012: 1758), addressing new products including services. One central ac- tor is the European Commission that has declared support for building a climate services mar- ket as explicit policy target (EU Climate Services Roadmap). The Commission is responsible for a budget of 80 billion euro for research and technology development (RTD) and has become a serious policy entrepreneur providing targeted funding. Funds fostering climate services come from several framework programmes providing this development, as far as it depends from EU governance, some degree of continuity and inter-/transnational coordination following a sort if sectoral principle of subsidiarity (Pilniok 2011: 293; cf. Xxxxx et al. 2010). The RTD policy of the Commission could be seen as public procurement for innovation (PPI; cf. Xxxxxxx et al. 2015; Xxxxx/Xxxxxxxxx 2007; Xxxxxxx et al. 2000) of climate services as a means to solve specific societal and policy problems: “the objective (purpose, rationale) of PPI is not primarily to enhance the development of new products, but to target functions that satisfy human needs or solve societal problems […] the 33 xxx.xxx.xxx/xxxxx-xxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx [21 October 2017] 34 xxx.xxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx/xxxxxxxxx/ [21 October 2017] 35 xxxx://xxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx/grabs/ [21 October 2017] 36 xxxx://xxxxxxxxxx-xxx.xxxxxxxx/project/using-the-toolbox/ [21 October 2017] 37 xxxxx://xxxxxx.xxx.xxx/stormwatercalculator/index.html [21 October 2017] diffusion of the product from the procuring organizations is not always among the major objec- tives of this type of program. However, there are cases in which diffusion of the new product is aimed at from the very start of the procurement process. This difference reflects the distinction between PPI carried out mainly for the missions or needs of the procuring agency and PPI to support economy-wide innovation. Be that as it may, innovation is needed in all PPI before de- livery can take place. In contrast to PPI, regular procurement occurs when public agencies buy ready-made products such as pens and paper “off-the-shelf”, where no innovation is involved. Only the price and quality of the (existing) product are taken into consideration when the sup- plier is selected.” (Xxxxxxx/Xxxxxx-Iturriagagoiti...
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