Innovation & Technology Transfer 1/98. Towards the Factory of the Future

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Innovation 0 Technology j Innovation projects: safer, greener agriculture j Taking pole position: IRC Automotive Group j Financing innovation: first l-TEC funds and more... PUBLISHED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION INNOVATION PROGRAMME · JANUARY 1998 CONTENTS Employment in Europe The Extraordinary European Council Meeting on Employment, held in Luxembourg last November, under­lined Europe's commitment to tackle unemployment, with the Council deciding that the relevant provisions of the Treaty of Amsterdam should be put into effect immediate­ly. The coordination of employment policy across Europe is no longer on the horizon ­ it is here. Employment guidelines will be elaborated and specific targets set. These will be monitored with the same vigour Factory of the Future, page 16. as the economic convergence criteria for Monetary Union. Education and training feature prominently in these guide­lines, as does risk capital. A number of Commission Pro­grammes are active in these fields, all focusing on creating POLICY NEWS 3-5 Industrial technologies conference ■ Liberalising a knowledge­based Europe ­ the best guarantor of employ­telecommunications in Europe ■ Biotechnology ment that we have.

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• Marketing et communication

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• Publié par: DIRECTORATE-GENERAL-FOR-THE-INFORMATION-SOCIETY-AND-MEDIA
• Nombre de lectures: 6
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 7 Mo

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