Recognising the crucial role that innovation has to play in improving European competitiveness and growth, Unit C1 – Innovation Policy - of Directorate-General Enterprise of the European Commission has launched a study entitled, ‘Innovation policy and the regulatory framework. Making innovation an integral part of the broader structural agenda’. The purpose of this study is:

• to synthesise the new approach to innovation policy in a knowledge-based and creative society and;

• to identify and review the links between innovation policy and other policies, in particular those relating to the legal and regulatory framework, with a view to providing analytical pointers to further co-ordination.

This study is carried out by Louis Lengrand et Associés (France), Association Nationale de la Recherche Technique (France) and PREST - University of Manchester (United Kingdom).

New (December 2002): the final publication is available on the EC Innovation site

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                                    Study launched by Unit C1 - Innovation Policy - of DG Enterprise of the European Commission