Support for innovation
The European Commission provides support for innovation through a series of initiatives and actions aimed at providing financial support to innovators, as well as better innovation support services for SMEs, notably start-ups, by developing and testing new forms of business support and facilitating transnational cooperation with a view to mobilising more resources for the creation of a European Innovation Space.
DG Enterprise and Industry support s this aim through the CIP financial instruments, through policy cooperation under the PRO INNO Europe ® initiative, partnership platforms between European innovation professionals under Europe INNOVA and through the IPR Helpdesk that provides assistance on intellectual property issues for EU funded projects.
The Enterprise Europe Network will play a key role in the wider roll-out of the resulting innovation tools and services by providing customised information, guidance and training on the benefits to SMEs and business support providers throughout Europe.
These initiatives are financed by the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP).
Commission Staff Working Document Challenges for EU support to innovation in services – Fostering new markets and jobs through innovation 
[5 MB] published on 09/09/2009
Commission Staff Working Document Making public support for innovation in the EU more effective: Lessons learned from a public consultation for action at Community level [416 KB] published on 09/09/2009
Commission Communication "Putting knowledge into practice: A broad based innovation strategy for the EU" , adopted on 13/09/2006
Commission Staff Working Document "Towards a European strategy in support of innovation in services: Challenges and key issues for future actions" [938 KB]
Commission Communication "Towards world-class clusters in the European Union: Implementing the broad-based innovation strategy" , adopted on 17/10/2008
Commission Staff Working Document "The concept of clusters and cluster policies and their role for competitiveness and innovation: Main statistical results and lessons learned" [3 MB]
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