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Science 19 January 2007:
Vol. 315. no. 5810, pp. 344 - 347
DOI: 10.1126/science.1131373
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Review

Enabling Europe to Innovate

Andrew Dearing

As activities that relate to innovation become increasingly global and open and so draw the private and public sectors into complex networks of partnerships, these activities also tend to concentrate where the ecosystem is most supportive. European public policy, which in recent years has emphasized the importance of research and development (R&D) in achieving competitive knowledge-based societies, is shifting toward approaches that address the broader qualities required of favorable ecosystems for innovation in a global economy, thereby incorporating the roles of market demand, public procurement, and regulation, as well as science, education, and industrial R&D, as part of determining effective innovation policies.

European Industrial Research Management Association, 46 rue Lauriston, 75116 Paris, France.

E-mail: adearing{at}eirma.asso.fr

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