Collaborative Creativity Group
UNU-MERIT has established itself as a pioneer in researching the socio-economic, legal and technical aspects of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS). These research activities have been previously visible through different projects and websites, and are now brought together as the Collaborative Creativity Group to emphasise the broader nature of the group's interests and activities.
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The Dynamics of Socio-Economic Development
This website supports the textbook The Dynamics of Socio-Economic Development. An Introduction by Adam Szirmai. The book contains over 70 tables with statistical data on different dimensions of development for a sample of 29 developing countries and aggregate data for regions. The website presents the detailed worksheets that underlie each of these tables. The website also provides links to important sources of international data for the study of growth and development.
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Empower European Universities
Empower European Universities is a Dutch foundation established in December 2010. Its main goal is to produce a basic guideline to assess the performance of higher education in EU member states in order to empower European universities, so that they can fully utilize their innovative potential. Numerous independent correspondents from 28 different European countries collaborate with the EEU using an evidence-based policy. For more details on EEU feel free to visit the website: http://empowereu.org |
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European Innovation Scoreboard
The EIS attempts to benchmark, on a yearly basis, the innovation performance of EU Member States, drawing on statistics from a variety of sources, primarily the Community Innovation Survey.
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ERAWATCH
ERAWATCH® provides information on national research policies, structures, programmes and organisations.
The aim of this service is to support policy making in the research field in Europe, by facilitating a better knowledge and understanding of national research systems, policies and the environments in which they operate.
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EPIP
EPIP stands for European Policy for Intellectual Property. It is an international, independent, interdisciplinary, non-profit association of researchers that grew out of a network financed by the European Commission from 2003 to 2005. |
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ETEPS
The European Techno-Economic Policy Support Network (ETEPS network) consists of 19 Effective members from 15 EU member states and 19 Associated members worldwide, brought together to carry out techno-economic and policy-related studies in the context of EU policy-making. |
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GPrix
A great number of measures currently exist to directly or indirectly support innovation in Europe. The FP7 funded GPrix project will assess the effectiveness of regional innovation support measures for SMEs in traditional manufacturing industries. Other partners in the consortium are Inovamais in Portugal, IFF Fraunhofer in Germany, Staffordshire University (UK), ENEA (Italy), ESTER Technopole (France) and the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain). |
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Hydrogen Fuel Cell Exchange
This website grew out of a research project at UNU-INTECH (now UNU-MERIT) on 'new wave technologies' and exclusion of developing countries. The purpose of the project was to raise awareness of emergent hydrogen and fuel cell technologies and to enhance long-term transport and energy decision-making in developing countries by benchmarking hydrogen fuel cell activities in the transport sector around the world. |
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LINK (Learning Innovation Knowledge)
LINK is an initiative of UNU-MERIT. Its goal is to advance understanding of innovation for a New Rural Economy in developing countries through concepts, lessons and guidelines and by facilitating discussions amongst scholars, policymakers, development investors and practitioners dealing with rural development. |
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Measuring ECO-Innovation
MEI offers a conceptual clarification of eco-innovation (developing a typology) based on an understanding of innovation dynamics. It will identify and discuss the main methodological challenges in developing indicators and statistics on eco-innovation and how these may be overcome.
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NOWT
The Netherlands Observatory of Science and Technology (NOWT) focuses on the collection and analysis of figures about the Dutch research system in a broad sense, including interfaces with public information services related to science, the higher education system, and the technological innovation system.
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Regional Innovation Monitor
In the context of the objectives set in the European Commission's Europe 2020 strategy and specifically the Innovation Union flagship action, the Regional Innovation Monitor (RIM) project provides a unique platform for sharing knowledge and know-how on major innovation policy trends in European Union (EU) regions. |
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WBC INCO-NET
The Western Balkan Countries INCO-NET
enhances integration of the Western Balkan countries (WBC) in the European Research Area.
The initiative is supported by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development.
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