Successful local milieux and the Lisbon process
Policy documents and information sources
Delivering Lisbon: Reforms for the enlarged Union
Report from the Commission to the Spring European Council, February 2004
Three priorities have been identified: improving investment in networks and knowledge, strengthening competitiveness in industry and services, and promoting active ageing. After four years of implementation of the Lisbon strategy, the Union’s progress is still insufficient to achieve the objectives it has set itself. Although progress has been made in a number of key fields, the implementation of the reforms by the Member States does not measure up to the task. A number of sectors are even encountering significant difficulties.
- Delivering Lisbon: Reforms for the enlarged Union [pdf, en, 852kb]
- Presidency Conclusions, Lisbon European Council, 23-24 March 2000
Innovation policy: updating the Union’s approach in the context of the Lisbon Strategy
European Commission Communication, March 2003
The present Communication on innovation policy, together with the Communication on industrial policy in an enlarged Europe and the Green Paper on entrepreneurship, form a coherent framework for the development of an enterprise policy that fosters competitiveness of companies and contributes to the growth of Europe’s economy.
The object of the Communication is firstly to describe the diverse routes to innovation and analyse the consequences for the design of innovation policy and for the different means by which innovation policy is put into action, so that they are not hampered by a view of innovation which is too restrictive.
- Innovation policy: updating the Union’s approach in the context of the Lisbon Strategy [pdf, en, 229kb]
A guide to cluster strategies in less favoured regions
European Commission, DG Regional Policy, April 2002
- A guide to cluster strategies in less favoured regions [pdf, en, 168kb]
