InnovatiømtøMcEbolo Wfflz. SPECIAL EDITION £. ^H PUBLISHED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION · INNOVATION/SMEs PROGRAMME · OCTOBER 2002 β*3 Contents Click here Introduction The Lisbon Summit of March 2000 marked a turning point for • A road map of European innovation policy EU enterprise and innovation policy, ushering in the high-level CORDIS - gateway ton support integration of social and economic policy with efforts to CORDIS homepage strengthen Europe's research capacity, promote entrepreneur-Fifth Research Framework Programme service National R&D and Innovation Information Service ship and facilitate the take-up of information society technoloRegional Research and Innovation Service gies. Subsequent development of innovation policy, and the CORDIS Wire Sixth Research Framework Programme service adoption of market-oriented innovation as one of guiding CORDIS News principles of the European Research Area, have been driven by S Express Partners service the Lisbon agenda for the creation of a dynamic and competiContactse tive European knowledge economy. Commission actions in support of innovation 7 It is now widely accepted that innovation is an ongoing, itera• Services for policy-makers 7 Trend Chart on Innovation in Europe tive process, not simply an aggregation of linear transfers of European Innovation Scoreboard new knowledge from the research base to industry.