| "(...) Innovation is on the agenda of every research policy. To take but one ex-ample, the European
Commission set the objective in 2010 of developing an “Innovation Union” by 2020. This “Europe
2020” strategy follows on from the “Lisbon Strategy”, promoted in 2000 with the aim of making the
European Union the “leading knowledge-based economy”. Without dwelling on the results of the previous ten-
year agenda, the reference document instantly asserts that competitiveness, employment and standard of
living in Europe depend primarily on its ability to promote innovation, which is “also our best means of
successfully tackling major societal challenges, such as climate change, energy and resource scarcity, health
and ageing, which are becoming more urgent by the day” (EC, 2010, p. 2). Tasked both with stimulating the
economy and protecting, if not improving, living conditions, innovation, as omnipresent as it may be in that
document (there are more than 300 occurrences of the word on less than 50 pages), is not defined anywhere.
Its meaning is taken for granted and evident. (...)" |
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