This handbook is published in the context of AI Watch, the European Commission’s knowledge service to monitor the development, uptake and impact of AI for Europe, which was launched in December 2018 as part of the Coordinated Plan on the Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence Made in Eur...

The Arctic region is expected to be increasingly affected by both ecological and anthropogenic processes, as a result of the climate change and socio-economic pressures. The goal of the EC JRC Arctic resilience ongoing study is to investigate the potential of existing EC JRC products and project...

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...