Innovation iñ Technology Transfer Green Paper on Innovation Inventing (°reen paper aNew Europ PUBLISHED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION INNOVATION PROGRAMME · JULY 1996 CONTENTS Innovation Issues Following the publication of the European Commission's n Green Paper, the last few months have seen a Europewide debate on innovation that is unprecedented in scope. The article on the following pages offers a flavour of many of the points that have emerged. It can however give only an impression of the richness of the debate, as anyone who had the good fortune to attend any of the Towards Sustainable Mobility, page 10. consultation seminars organised in each of the Member States to discuss the Green Paper, or the final summingup conference in Rome at the end of May, can testify. GREEN PAPER ON INNOVATION: 37 'Inventing a New Europe' The article also looks forward to an innovation action POLICY NEWS 89 plan which the Commission is preparing to put forward New International Research Agreements ■ later this year. Europe's Performance Analysed Also in this issue, the article on page 21 reports that DOSSIER: 1017 even in a technologically sophisticated area such as softEUROPEAN TRANSPORT RESEARCH: TRENDS IN T ware development, innovation can depend heavily on organisational and managerial factors.