This report underpins the Partnerships for Regional Innovation Playbook by synthesising the main concepts and rationales in support of PRI. It draws on the JRC's experience with smart specialisation strategies (S3) over the last decade, state-of-the-art literature on innovation governance and in...

The European Green Deal and the unprecedented European effort to foster socio-economic transformation and build a resilient and long-term sustainable EU bring to the fore the need for an upgraded role for innovation. The deep transformations of production and consumption systems are a momentous ...

The European Green Deal and the unprecedented European effort to foster socio-economic transformation and build a resilient and long-term sustainable EU bring to the fore the need for an upgraded role for innovation. The deep transformations of production and consumption systems are a momentous ...

In order to safeguard potential benefits brought by the electrification of road transport it becomes more and more important to evaluate the performance of hybrid, fully battery-powered and fuel-cell powered electric vehicles (HEVs, BEVs and FCEVs) in terms of electromagnetic emissions in chargi...

This report presents a first screening and analysis of the legal and political framework related to the potential deployment of geo-engineering interventions. Geo-engineering (GE) can be defined as the process through which humans voluntarily manipulate the energy input to the Earth System deplo...

This year’s EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard reports on companies’ R&D investments in 2020, providing a snapshot of a particularly challenging year when the COVID-19 pandemic hit our societies and economy. The Scoreboard reflects the impact in various industrial sectors....

As the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in late Winter 2020, support for national governments rose in several European countries. While many analyses of such surge have so far been limited to immediate aftermath of the pandemic breakout, we study if the political unifying effect of the pandemic survive...

Identification of promising areas is among the main goals of economic and innovation policy development and a focal point of the Smart Specialisation approach. The economies of the Western Balkan region are applying Smart Specialisation to determine the economic domains in which they should dire...

As economies in the European Union Enlargement and Neighbourhood Region are gathering pace in developing their respective Smart Specialisation Strategies, their focus is moving from the design to the implementation phase. This has generated a need for a structured implementation framework, that ...

The 2021 EURL ECVAM status report describes research, development and validation activities, as well as initiatives that promote the uptake and use of non-animal methods and approaches in science and regulation. The principle of the Three Rs, i.e. Replacement, Reduction and Refinement of animal ...