Prof. Pierre Mohnen will lead UNU-MERIT’s stake in WATSON – a new 1 million euro innovation project funded by the European Commission. Part of the Horizon 2020 programme, WATSON is an 18-month project involving EU research institutions and SMEs working in Fintech, financial services and economics. We caught up with Pierre to find out more. What’s our role and who are the other partners? The WATSON project focuses on R&D tax incentives to promote innovation in Small and Medium-sized Ent...
Co-authored by researchers Hugo Hollanders and Nordine Es-Sadki, the European Innovation Scoreboard gives a comparative analysis of innovation performance across EU member states, other European countries, and regional neighbours. According to this year’s results, EU innovation performance continues to increase, partly thanks to improvements in human resources, the innovation-friendly environment, own-resource investments, and attractive research systems. Overall, Sweden remains the EU in...
The annual European Innovation Scoreboard, co-authored by Hugo Hollanders, Nordine Es-Sadki and Minna Kanerva, provides a comparative analysis of innovation performance in EU Member States, other European countries, and regional neighbours. It assesses relative strengths and weaknesses of national innovation systems and helps countries identify areas they need to address. According to the 2016 Scoreboard, the EU is continuing to catch up with global innovation leaders. But innovation is still he...
The North–South divide in research and innovation is narrowing, says the latest UNESCO Science Report. UNU-MERIT founder Luc Soete presented the executive summary at the launch event at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The full report is embedded below. The report includes several contributions by UNU-MERIT fellows, including chapter 1: ‘A World in Search of an Effective Growth Strategy’ by Luc Soete et al; Chapter 2: ‘Tracking Trends in Innovation and Mobility’, by Director...