The European Union’s growing innovation divide. Bruegel Policy Contribution Issue 2016/08 April 2016


Autoria(s): Veugelers, Reinhilde.
Data(s)

01/04/2016

Resumo

There is a significant divide between the European Union countries with the greatest capacity to innovate, and those with the least capacity to innovate. The difficult convergence process has been proceeding only very slowly and unevenly, and more recently seems to have come to a halt. A particular weak spot for the EU is corporate investment in research; in this area, the intra-EU divide is growing. As the business sector is responsible for the persistent R&D intensity gap between the EU and the United States and Asia, the persistent failure of lagging EU countries to catch up in this area provides much of the explanation for the EU’s weak performance compared to other economies. The evidence shows that the deployment of public budgets and the mix of policies employed by EU member states have tended to aggravate the intra-EU divide. The EU needs to better understand its growing internal innovation divide if it is to achieve its ambition of becoming a world innovation leader.

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application/pdf

Identificador

http://aei.pitt.edu/74269/1/pc_2016_08.pdf

Veugelers, Reinhilde. (2016) The European Union’s growing innovation divide. Bruegel Policy Contribution Issue 2016/08 April 2016. [Policy Paper]

Relação

http://bruegel.org/2016/04/the-european-unions-growing-innovation-divide/

http://aei.pitt.edu/74269/

Palavras-Chave #rtd (RTD) policy/European Research Area #innovation policy
Tipo

Policy Paper

NonPeerReviewed