15 Amendments of Pilar del CASTILLO VERA related to 2010/2245(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A – introductory part
Recital A – introductory part
A. whereas accelerating innovation is not only essential in order to attain a sustainable and competitive economic model and secure future employment, but will also generate solutions to the shared grand societal challenges facing European society, namely:
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A – point 3
Recital A – point 3
· a stable and equitablrong, stable, equitable and competitive economic base: economic recovery, harnessing a knowledge-based society, and boosting the EU's competitiveness,
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B – point 1
Recital B – point 1
· putting first citizens' and businesses’ creativity, consumption patterns and responses to new ideas,
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B – point 4 a (new)
Recital B – point 4 a (new)
· enhancing human capital and improving innovation uptake in the private sector,
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for a broad concept of innovation that goes beyond technological and product-oriented innovation and placehighlights the enabling role of citizens at the centre; recalls that innovation is applying ideas successfully in practice and targets products, processes, services or movements;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the Commission's focus on grand societal challenges, and stresses that innovation is needed in order to increase resource productivity and sustainable substitution while simultaneously reducinguse of resource uses and energy consumptiontowards an increasing efficiency;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 – point 1
Paragraph 6 – point 1
· strategic orientation, design and implementation of all policies and measures, with the aim of contributing to and enhancing innovation in Europe (through, for example, education and training, advisory services, the labour market, the single market, infrastructure, taxation instruments, industrial policy and trade);
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 – point 1
Paragraph 6 – point 1
· strategic orientation, design and implementation of all policies and measures, with the aim of contributing to and enhancing innovation in Europe (through, for example, education and training, advisory services, the labour market, the single market, infrastructure, taxation instruments, EU policies focused on SMEs, industrial policy and trade);
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Subheading 2
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses that citizens' demands as consumers and engagement as professionals and businesses and companies are the main drivers of innovation; points out that the creation of an innovative society must therefore be based on the participation of its citizens and businesses/companies, by enabling them to articulate their needs and their creative potential through a bottom-up approach and by providing innovative solutions enabling individual citizens to contribute to resource efficiency;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls upon the Commission and the Member States to put serious effort into bringing about a change of mindset towards innovative and curiosity-driven thinking, by encouraging changes towards sustainable consumer patterns and actively promoting citizens' and businesses’ engagement in innovation;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Highlights the importance of economic and social innovation and the need to adopt a bottom- up approach and an open environment for creative ideas, so as to spur productivity growth, empower employees and develop solutions for unmet social needs (such as inclusion and immigration);
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the EU, national and regional authorities to stimulate social innovation and to provide public funds in support of it as well as the promotion of public-private partnerships; stresses that social innovation should be included in funding and support programmes such as the European Social Fund, the Framework Programmes (FPs) and the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP);
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States to take action to improve the entrepreneurial and quantitative skills of (young) Europeans citizens and business and by incorporating entrepreneurship and innovation into all areas of education and improving human capital which enables them to develop or uptake innovation;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Calls for the introduction of a single Community patent; welcomes, meanwhile, the broad support in the Council for the enhanced cooperation procedure on a single EU patent to start in 2011balanced and non-discriminatory single EU patent;