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The meeting on Europe’s future: Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World took place in the European Parliament on June 27th. Jointly organized by K4I and DG R&I, it was a forum for engagement between MEPs, the RISE HLG, representatives of the European Commission and the wider policy community. The discussion on Europe’s future in S& I addressed visions and values; framework conditions and instruments; and creating social and economic value.

In June 2017, the European Commission's Directorate-General for Research & Innovation published eight NanoData Landscape Compilation reports offering a snapshot of the environment for nanotechnology in different application fields. The reports describe policies and programm es for nanotechnology in the EU and give an overview of publications, patenting, research & innovation, industry, products and markets.

JIIP contributed to the study on “ Measurement of impact of cross-border penetration in public procurement” that the European Commission - DG GROW has just published.

The K4I General Assembly, which took place on 23 January 2017, elected a new K4I President - Robbert Fisher. He is the Managing Director of the Joint Institute for Innovation Policy (JIIP).

The General Assembly also re-elected Dr Tomasz Kosmider, President and Founder of the TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS Foundation (TPF), as a K4I Vice-president.

Organised in cooperation with the Joint Institute of Innovation Policy (JIIP).

The JIIP symposium addresses these issues in four sessions:

The impact of digitisation on employment 

The new opportunities and job creation

The dependence on global platforms

The way forward

High-level speakers from industry, academia and policy will present their views, and involve you in this essential debate.

Elena Schaeidt was elected as Chairman of the JIIP Board.

She is a Corporate Development & Communication Director at TECNALIA Research & Innovation.

In the context of the project "Evaluation and Analysis of Good Practices in Promoting and Supporting Migrant Entrepreneurship", JIIP and VVA have supported the European Commission with the identification of successful schemes and programmes in the field of Migrant Entrepreneurship. 

The key outcome of the project, which started in January 2016, was a guide book published by DG GROWTH on the 29th of August.

On 7th December 2015, JIIP held its 7th Annual Symposium in the context of the 7th European Innovation Summit organised by Knowledge4Innovation (K4I) in the European Parliament in Brussels. The Symposium attracted more than 200 registrants and various speakers who spoke about the state of play and foreseeable future of Open Innovation practice and policy, with a particular focus eco systems and the position and role of SME’s.

The European Commission's KETs Observatory recently published their first Annual Report.

The first annual report discusses the results of the technology generation and exploitation approach that looks at the ability of countries to generate and commercialize new knowledge. It outlines the relative position of the EU-28 countries in terms of their technology, trade, production and turnover performance.