Innovazione, PMI e il Policy Framework Europeo

Innovation trends across European SMEs represent a sensible topic for the EU, which is increasingly engaged in the implementation of policies and programmes to support the development of innovation. Thus, in order to foster investments in R&D and convert research into improved goods, services, or processes for the market. Enhancing innovation for SMEs also implies a shift from the classical industrial development a paradigm based on wide-scale industrial production, towards the “local development paradigm”, according to which more efforts should be addressed to the valorisation of a less globalised production, also able to better meet social needs. European competitiveness on a the global scale has to be consistent with this new perspective, in which product customisation and exclusivity are the main characteristics of the supply, together with the need for constant innovation enhancement. In such an evolving economic context, the EU is striving to promote Innovation initiatives, in compliance with the European Union regulatory framework and taking into account the analysis provided by Innobarometer and Innovation Union Scoreboards reports.