innovation strategy

Canada's innovation economy is at a critical junction, one that will require policymakers to choose what they want out of their science and technology (S&T) investments, according to a new study. The Toronto Region Research Alliance recently published a report that provides an analysis of S&T strategies in 10 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, China, South Korea, Israel, the Netherlands, India, various African initiatives, Germany and Finland. Each of these national S&T strategies are examined through the lens of the basic motivations behind their investments and how they relate to the policies that have been put in place.

The Austrian Government presented on 8 March 2011 its new strategy for research, technology and innovation (RTI). Austria’s declared goal is to move up from an “innovation follower” to the league of “innovation leaders” among the EU Member States. This ambitious objective links directly to the EU’s Innovation Scoreboard of 2010, which ranks Austria among the “innovation followers” (together with the UK, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, France, Cyprus, Slovenia and Estonia). Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Germany are currently the “innovation leaders” in Europe, according to the Scoreboard.

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Potenziale ausschöpfen, Dynamik steigern, Zukunft schaffen. Der Weg zum Innovation Leader. Innovationsstrategie der Bundesregierung (March 2011). The new innovation strategy of the Austrian Government (in German language).

In July 2010 the German federal government renewed its high technology strategy, setting new emphases while continuing the overall approach that was defined in 2006. The objective of the renewed high tech strategy is to create lead markets, to deepen cooperation between science and business, and to further improve framework conditions for innovation.

Utrecht, 20 July 2010. With the fall of the Dutch government, the Dutch Innovation Platform was lifted and its members resigned on May 1. The Dutch Innovation Platform and 25 other parties are moving forward and are working together towards ambitions formulated in the Knowledge Investment Agenda (KIA).