This report provides an overview on how European SMEs are currently participating in public procurement of innovation tenders. By focusing on-going or finished practices, the main objective of this report is to identi...
A thorough SME test is a pre-condition for evidence-based policy initiatives that deliver their objectives in a manner that avoids unnecessary or disproportionate burdens on SMEs. As such, the SME test is pivotal to t...
A few years ago, the European Union’s institutions promoted the goal of increasing the manufacturing sector’s share of EU value added to 20 percent. Meanwhile, the labels ‘made in Europe’ or ‘made in country...
Commission has been encouraging European enterprises to enter the Japanese market and has given them concrete assistance through promotional programmes such as the Executive Training Programme and the EU Gateway Progr...
The trade negotiations arising from Britain’s exit from the EU will provide businesses with a unique opportunity to help set the terms of their trade with the rest of the world for a generation.
Status of manufacturing in the three sectors to which the three REEMAIN project demo sites belong: biscuits manufacturing, iron casting and denim textile. It also an analysis on the applicability of innovative energy ...
The UK’s vote to leave the EU brings with it the possibility of so-called 'hard Brexit'. Business needs to understand what Britain leaving the EU without a smooth transition to a new framework might mean for cross-b...
Across the world people are already being hit hard by climate change. Some communities are being evacuated to avoid the rising oceans, while droughts and record-breaking floods made worse by climate change are devasta...