The Key to Innovation

The European Commission's DG Enterprise and Industry has published a 15-minute video documentary highlighting the importance of innovative products and services to boost Europe’s competitiveness and growth.

Taking the Europe INNOVA conference in Valencia as its point of departure, the documentary showcases a wide range of innovative companies and initiatives, from leading-edge photovoltaic technology in the Spanish ceramics industry to the use of local biofuels in combined heat and power production in Finland as a way of mitigating climate change, or the building and construction sector using performance-based standards for sustainable development to improve its efficiency and competitiveness.

The documentary shows SMEs explaining how working with their competitors in a ‘shared efforts for shared benefits’ cluster initiative in the automotive sector has helped increase their customer base and why tailored support for small innovative firms is crucial in their quest to secure venture financing and access international markets.

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