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COMPETITIVENESS AND INNOVATION FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME — ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION PROGRAMME

Appropriations 2008 - €120,545,000
Budget Article 02 02 01 

The aim of this appropriation is to foster the competitiveness of enterprises and in particular small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), to promote innovation, including eco-innovation and to support enterprise and innovation-related economic and administrative reform.

Action in relation to eco-innovation may include:

q       supporting the take-up of environmental technologies and eco-innovative activities;

q       fostering eco-innovation networks and clusters, public-private partnerships in eco-innovation and developing innovative business services, facilitating or promoting eco-innovation;  and

q       promoting new and integrated approaches on eco-innovation in fields such as environmental management and the environment-friendly design of products, processes and services, taking into account their whole life cycle.

The Community will provide support to projects concerned with the first applications or market replication of innovative or eco-innovative techniques, products or practices of Community relevance, which have already been technically demonstrated with success but, owing to residual risk, have not yet significantly penetrated the market. These will be designed to promote their broader utilisation within the participating countries and facilitate their market uptake.

The implemented measures shall include:

q       networks bringing together a variety of stakeholders,

q       market replication, projects and other measures to support the take-up of innovation,

q       policy analyses, development and coordination with participating countries,

q       information sharing, dissemination and awareness raising,

q       support to joint actions of Member States or regions, and other measures encompassed in the Competitiveness and Innovation framework programme.