2004-11-27 EU Commission Presents Competitiveness Report

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The new EU Commission competitiveness report was presented by Commissioner Günter Verheugen. It measures regional competitiveness by the number of patents granted and by the number of patent administration officers employed by universities.

References

• http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/enterprise_policy/competitiveness/doc/comprep_2004_en.pdf

  • Many large paragraphs refer to patent law such as

    • 2.4.1 Public business R&D funding and private patent outcomes  Cross-country comparison and empirical analysis of Germany and Finland

• Innovation Scoreboard Report 04 with silly new innovation indicators such as

  • "Number of Technology Transfer Institutions (TTIs) divided by number of Public Research Organisations (PROs), per country"
  • and "Number of patents/ high tech patents per million inhabitants"

• Portal: http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/enterprise_policy/

For further information, please contact:

• European Commission Enterprise DG Unit A5 - Competitiveness, analysis and benchmarking B-1049 Brussels Belgium Fax: +32 2 296 62 84

  E-mail: entr-competit-benchmarkg@cec.eu.int