Draft Report of the Expert Group on International STI Cooperation to ...

KETs (key enabling
technologies)
Primarily bottomup)
Where <strong>the</strong> <strong>the</strong>mes
reflect existing research
competencies and
capacities and
maintaining or
catching-up
competiveness in
crucial, specific
technological areas,
<strong>the</strong>re should be a much
stronger bottom-up
approach, because <strong>of</strong>
short life cycles means
that time-to-market is
important. The priority
should be <strong>the</strong>
technological
competences <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>
partners, as judged by
<strong>the</strong> EU partners, ra<strong>the</strong>r
than geographical or
national level issues.
Generic technology
and
interdisciplinary
standard-setting
Focus on
development and
product/processes
that are close-tomarket
Interaction between
customer-suppliers
on development and
market-adaptation
innovation project
Establishment <strong>of</strong>
voluntary
standard-setting,
driven by firms -
focus is on
Customer-supplier
networks:Internal
(GPN, MNE, or
keiretsu) standards
Also extends to
helping EU firms
meet standards set by
non-EU firms.
Focus is on applied research
Establishment <strong>of</strong> EU based Centres for knowledge transfers
built around communities <strong>of</strong> practice.
These centres build strong partnerships with industry, national
laboratories, and international centres <strong>of</strong>
Excellence
Objective is to promote complex interactions between
researchers and users. The more sustained and intense <strong>the</strong>
interaction between researchers and users, <strong>the</strong> more likely <strong>the</strong>
research results will be used.
Secondary objective is SME-driven: SMEs cannot afford to
spend resources on long-term research projects, because
short-term imperatives mean that resources simply are not
<strong>the</strong>re to invest in <strong>the</strong>se areas. Resources (time, money, and so
on) to address short-term goals reduce <strong>the</strong> ability to draw on
resources for long-term goals.
Focus is on global production networks and global value
chains, where joint innovation activity is core to longer-term
participation in GPN or GVC
Focus is on
1. EU SMEs acting as suppliers to non-EU GPNs
2. Non-EU suppliers to EU-centred GPNs and GVCs
Objective is to reduce transaction costs
bottom-
Primarily
up)
Precompetitive
voluntary
standards
setting in
nascent
sectors
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