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November 2, 2014
Tackling corporate memory loss and innovation failure requires a different paradigm than that offered by social media. My previous post (Plus ça change) was, I realise now, about more than just EC corporate memory loss, but it took a comment from a reader before I realised it. Which neatly demonstrates how sharing leads to innovation.… » read more
October 16, 2014
Dr Jean Tirole has won the Nobel Prize for Economics having pursued studies centred on regulations suited to ex State monopolies, like Power supplies, Telecom, Gas, Banks… Mr Tirole concludes that those sizable companies, once privatized, tend to accumulate excessive profits, often not decorously compatible with the community of citizens. Hence the opportunity to legislate… » read more
October 13, 2014
It was a great pleasure receiving the Invitation Letter for Grant Preparation. In this line of work you get used to receiving many different letters from the Commission, but this letter is always the best, no matter how many projects you have managed. As a partner you congratulate of course to your coordinator and all… » read more
September 22, 2014
Petros Christodoulou, a Greek investment banker, once quipped “most of the bad news about America’s subprime-mortgage market will be out by the end of August.” It was the beginning of August 2007, just a few weeks before the financial whirlwind that almost sucked in the global economic system unleashed. At the time, Greece was still… » read more
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English, Euro & Finance, Innovation & Enterprise, Social Europe & Jobs |
September 18, 2014
How Can Public Private Partnerships Stimulate Innovation Economy? What Can be the Role of the Industry? Guest speaker Sinan Tumer : Senior Director SAP Co-Innovation Lab Sinan Tumer is the Senior Director of SAP Co-Innovation Lab in the East Coast region of USA. He is responsible for establishing an open innovation process by harnessing… » read more
September 15, 2014
In the EU world we hear about “innovation” all the time, but what does that actually mean? I am currently re-reading “More Money Than God” by Sebastian Mallaby. It tells the stories of the pioneers in the hedge fund sector, explaining their methods and the workings of this secretive arena. It has made me realise… » read more
September 9, 2014
“Don’t be evil”, Google slogan “Evil is what Sergey (Brin) says is evil.” Google CEO Eric Schmidt quoted in Wired. Secrets come in all shapes and sizes. Some are well intentioned, others not. Some relate to state security; others to highly sensitive commercial secrets. Some are personal, petty and irrelevant. Some mean the difference between… » read more
September 8, 2014
There’s no such thing as a free lunch, Alan Friedman It’s free and we always will be, FB front-page In the final part of The EU v Palo Alto we come to the crux of the current tussle between Little Brother and Europe. As far as Palo Alto is concerned privacy is a proprietary right… » read more
September 4, 2014
Having submitted a number of proposals in response to the first calls of Horizon 2020, we have started receiving feedback from the European Commission in the second half of August for those proposals submitted in early spring. The Commission (or its Agencies) evaluates the Horizon 2020 proposals with the help of independent experts. Once the… » read more
Amsterdam, 14 November 2014 This year marks the tenth anniversary of the new enforcement system of EU competition law, which was introduced by Regulation 1/2003. Ten years of functioning of the Regulation calls for reflection and evaluation. The Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG) has the pleasure of inviting you to its Fourth… » read more
August 28, 2014
In various conversations over recent months, I have noticed that a lot of people don’t understand the difference between general, or horizontal search on the one hand, and specialised, or vertical search on the other. Understanding the differences is crucial to understanding how Google abuses its dominant position, because Google systematically describes a vast “search”… » read more
July 31, 2014
OpenDiscoverySpace was showcased during the international conference on ‘Agriculture for Life, Life Agriculture’, which took place in Bucharest from the 5th to the 6th of June. On the second conference day, during the morning Agronomy session, partner Salvador Sanchez-Alonso (Universidad de Alcalá) presented OpenDiscoverySpace as a successful eLearning initiative to transform Education in Europe. Using… » read more
Guest blogpost by Martha Suda, who works at the Open Innovation team in the EU Commission’s DG CONNECT. Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) is an omnipresent topic. What is more, it does not get any easier when you want to start an Open-Innovation-based business. First allow me to briefly introduce myself: My name is Martha… » read more
July 20, 2014
One year on from the Snowden revelations and the global privacy debate is by no means settled. FB announced it will be exercising its rights to sell users’ data to third party advertisers, Russia signed an act banning the export of all its personal data abroad and Google is portraying the ECJ ruling on the… » read more
In order to resolve its dispute with the European Commission (EC) over its abuses in dominant position in search, Google has proposed to use an existing commercial product, the Google Shopping box, as a basis for a settlement with the EC. The intended purpose was to give comparable presentation of rival products; note: comparable, not… » read more
July 8, 2014
Dozens of Horizon 2020 calls, which were launched on 11 December 2013, are now closed. Quite a few of these calls had submission deadlines in March and April 2014; hence, we have nowadays started receiving feedback from the Commission on the outcomes of our submitted proposals. Similarly, various statistical information on the calls and proposals… » read more
One of the strange phenomena of the European integration process is the slowness with which transnational business has replaced traditional structures. Business, whatever sector, has stayed for a long time where it had been before 1958. While intra-European trade has flourished companies did not feel much need to join hands with neighbouring competitors and prepare… » read more
July 1, 2014
EurActiv Institute is in the midst of organising an unusual event at the premises of the European Parliament for July 8, 2014. Several “project promoters” are aiming to highlight a range of the latest innovative tools available to MEPs during their 2014-2019 Mandate. Over the last 15 years EurActiv has developed a unique concept of… » read more
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English, EU Citizens and Media, EU Priorities 2020, future EU, Innovation & Enterprise |
May 26, 2014
Google-bashing has become very fashionable. Businesses, individuals, and politicians around the world, but especially in Europe, have taken great delight in attacking Google: Google the monopolist, Google the privacy-killer, Google the tax-dodger, Google the facilitator of online piracy, Google the free-rider over telecoms networks. The list goes on. My company is one of those… » read more
