Review: InnovationInnovation reportLisbon scorecard X
  • Book review - Innovation in Europe lacks 'creative destruction': CER report states
    Opinion piece 08 September 2011
    Innovation in Europe lacks 'creative destruction': Report
  • Innovation: How Europe can take off
    Report by Philip Whyte, Simon Tilford, Esko Aho, Jim Attridge, Amar Bhidé, Albert Bravo-Biosca, Nicholas Crafts, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, Malcolm Harbour, John Kay, Helga Nowotny, Andreas Schleicher, Michael Schrage and David Willetts., 08 July 2011
  • The Lisbon scorecard X: The road to 2020
    Report by Philip Whyte, Simon Tilford, 15 March 2010
    The Lisbon scorecard X: The road to 2020
  • The Lisbon scorecard III: The status of economic reform in the enlarging EU
    Working paper by Alasdair Murray, 07 March 2003

    Three years into the EU's Lisbon economic reform agenda, the EU remains far from meeting its goal of becoming the 'most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010'.
  • The Barcelona European Council
    Policy brief by Edward Bannerman, 01 March 2002

    The EU's ten-year plan to transform itself into "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010" is running out of steam. The forthcoming summit in Barcelona on March 15 and 16 needs to reenergise Europe's faltering commitment to the 'Lisbon agenda' of economic reform.
  • The Lisbon scorecard: The status of economic reform in Europe
    Working paper by Edward Bannerman, 02 March 2001

    It will be left to future historians to appreciate fully the significance of the Lisbon Summit of March 2000 in the economic evolution of Europe. But it is already possible to argue that its impact could be even more farreaching than that of the euro.
  • The "open method of co-ordination": Innovation or talking shop?
    Bulletin article by Kirsty Hughes , 01 December 2000

    At the 'dot.com' Summit AT Lisbon in March 2000, the EU set itself the strategic goal of creating full employment in a competitive and inclusive knowledge-based economy.
  • Europe's new economy
    Bulletin article by Charles Leadbeater, Kitty Ussher, 01 December 1999

    Europe needs a new economic story. Its ability to compete in the knowledge-driven economy depends on how well it can translate science, technology and know-how into jobs, growth and economic success.
  • Europe's new economy
    Report by Charles Leadbeater, 05 November 1999

    Europe needs a new economic story because it faces a new economic challenge. The challenge is to transform European science and technology, knowledge and creativity, into jobs, growth and economic success.
  • Entrepreneurial Europe
    Bulletin article by Kitty Ussher, 02 August 1999

    Europe's biggest economic problem is that it lacks the kind of entrepreneurial culture that powers America's economy. There are not enough start-up companies or large companies that are capable of innovation.
  • Can industrial Europe be saved?
    Report by Olivier Cadot, Pierre Blime, 13 September 1996

    Pessimists claim that the European economy is sinking under the weight of an over-regulated labour market and a costly welfare state.