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 Innovation Policy Measures
The TrendChart policy monitoring network tracks developments in innovation policy measures in 33 European countries. An innovation policy measure is defined as any activity that mobilises:
- Resources (financial, human, organisational) through innovation orientated programmes and projects;
- Information (road-mapping, technology diffusion activities, coordination) which is geared towards innovation activities;
- Institutional processes (legal acts, regulatory rules) designed to explicitly influence environment for innovation.
To achieve public policy objectives in area of innovation:
- With a percentage of (national) public funding;
- On a continuing basis (usually not a one-off 'event');
- Where the target group or eligible participants include enterprises.
The policy measures can be accessed in several ways:
Via the Country pages which provide a single entry point to all information for each country; By consulting an overview table providing a glimpse of the number of policy measures per country and category and allowing a quick one click access to all measures per category per country (e.g. all measures in favour of innovative start-ups in Germany).
Through a multi-criteria search function enabling the user to search for measures from one or more countries corresponding to one or more criteria (e.g. all innovation finance measures from the Scandinavian countries which have been evaluated over the last five years).
Innovation Policy Information
The policy information base provides easy access via an enhanced search function to policy information and news items collected by the Trend Chart network of country correspondents. Correspondents monitor a range of publication and events including: official government policy documents (White Paper, etc.); opinions of consultative bodies; evaluation reports; academic studies and scientific articles on innovation and innovation related events, awards and media.
The overview table illustrates the number of items per country and per type of information allowing the user to rapidly access all information items related to government policy documents for a specific country. The search function allows a more complex search of policy information items relevant to a number of countries, a number of types of information, by source, etc.
Who is Who in Innovation
The Who’s who database of the TrendChart provides an overview of the key innovation stakeholders in each of the 33 countries and three country zones covered by the network of correspondents. The Who’s who includes information on the following categories of persons:
- Managers of innovation policy measures contained in the TrendChart database of measures;
- Participants to TrendChart policy workshops;
- Members of the Group of Senior officials of EU Member States on Innovation Policy which oversees the work of the TrendChart network in coordination with the European Commission;
- The Country Correspondents of the Trend Chart network as well as other senior experts and managers of the TrendChart;
- Individuals who have subscribed to the Trend Chart news service and who have completed the required information in the profile form.
The publication of information on all these categories of persons is subject to verification by TrendChart management and to the express authorisation of each individual in line with European data protection and privacy laws. TrendChart management reserves the right not to publish information or to withdraw information previously published on any individual.
The medium-term aim of the TrendChart project is to facilitate and stimulate the creation of ‘Communities of practice’ across Europe on Innovation policy related issues. Such communities may arise from the output of TrendChart policy workshops, from themes of common interest identified through the news profiling service or on the basis of identified trends in innovation performance of policy.
The overview table below provides a summary of the number of individuals registered per category of organisation and per country (group). By clicking on the number in one of the squares in the table, you can access, for instance, information about all individuals and organisations registered in TrendChart as an actor or a national (innovation) agency in their country.
The search function provides a multi-criteria search allowing a list of people to be viewed corresponding to a number of criteria (country, type of organisation, specific interests with respect to innovation policy, etc.).
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