Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-02-03-Speech-2-193"
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"− This report makes sobering reading: for all the talk about the Lisbon agenda, and making Europe the world’s most competitive economy by next year, I was shocked to read that the US public sector is spending USD 50 billion per year on research and development procurement.
This amount is twenty times higher than in Europe and an amount that represents approximately half of the overall research and development investment gap between the US and Europe.
I welcome this report by my colleague, Malcolm Harbour, who has set out ways in which Europe can begin to close that productivity gap. The key to this process is in the title: driving innovation.
In my view, the best way for the aspirations of this report to become reality is to ensure that the EU encourages innovation and technological development rather than throwing regulatory obstacles in the way.
Given the important role of public procurement in promoting and supporting new technologies, I supported this report. I hope its principles will be of use to local authorities in my region of North-East England."@en1
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