This document summarises the Study on the Competitiveness of the EU Engineering Industries and the Impact of Digitalisation for the European Commission....
The study’s overall objective is to provide an up-to-date assessment of the competitiveness of the electrical, electronic and mechanical engineering sectors at European level and across the 27 Member States (+ the UK), and of the comparative situation internationally through benchmarking with ma...
The overall study objective is to examine the feasibility of additional EU-level initiatives to increase the participation of academic and industrial researchers in intersectoral mobility (“ISM”) in Europe. The specific objectives are to: - Produce an inventory of existing literature on ISM in E...
The study provides an input to the Commission for upgrading the SMS to better monitor the state of play of the SM’s implementation across its four freedoms i.e. the free movement of goods, services, people and capital. The study has several objectives, to: - Map the existing SMS (including data ...
This study was carried out for the European Commission’s DG Research and Innovation. The purpose was to examine the feasibility of further EU initiatives to increase the participation of researchers in intersectoral mobility (“ISM”) in Europe. The study involved the identification of 270+ nation...
The specific objectives of this study are to: provide an overview of the market of online hotel reviews in the EU; analyse current practices on hotel booking and review websites in all EU Member States; provide an overview of measures taken to address fake reviews and the misleading use of revie...
Upon request by the European Parliament’s Committee of Inquiry to investigate alleged contraventions and maladministration in the application of Union law in relation to money laundering, tax avoidance and tax evasion (PANA Committee), this study assesses the impacts of the schemes revealed by t...
This Paper examines the role played by National Promotional Banks and Regional Promotional Banks in implementing EU SME financial instruments across EU-28, to examine how far they are already involved in implementing these instruments and in what capacity they help to strengthen access to financ...