Status: EIPs and JITs are helping—further innovation required
The emergence in recent years of novel partnership models, such as “European Innovation Partnerships” and JTIs has helped progress partnership needs for many sectors and actors. Yet the rapid evolution of ICT and its impact on society calls for further innovative approaches.
Challenges that remain include:
- Ensuring co-operative activities complement Joint Programming and the EIPs in facilitating the innovation value chain;
- Increasing the participation of EU’s vibrant SME sector in future partnerships;
- Attracting greater interest and involvement in EU R&I partnerships by citizens, civil society organisations, and communities of users and researchers from non-ICT disciplines.
Competing economies which balance their innovation investments differently and have complete value chains
Innovation is currently rigid and not adaptive to new developments between silos and the involvement of “unusual suspects”