Published: 03 July 2017

Independent advisors call for increased EU investment in research and innovation for the sake of Europe's future

Europe must capitalise better on the knowledge it produces, and turn its innovation potential into economic growth.

'Research and innovation should be prioritised in EU and national budgets, with a doubling of the budget of the successor to Horizon 2020, the current EU research and innovation programme. And it should involve citizens in addressing global challenges through broadly mobilising innovation missions'.

These are among the eleven recommendations presented to the Commission in a new vision for EU research and innovation, prepared by an independent high level group of leading experts chaired by Pascal Lamy, President Emeritus of the Jacques Delors Institute.

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http://ec.europa.eu/research/index.cfm?&na=na-030717&pg=newsalert&year=2017