12 Amendments of Reinhard BÜTIKOFER related to 2009/2227(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas companies’ ability to innovate depends to a great extent on access to adequate financial resources, and the credit crunch caused by the current economic crisis threatens drastically to curtail corporate capacity for innovation, in particular for SMEs,
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas innovation is the key to meeting the EU’s current social and environmental challenges and realising its strategic political goals in areas including competitiveness, employment, demographic change and climate change,
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Emphasises the important role that innovation clusters will play in future EU innovation policy and stresses the potential offered in particular by knowledge clusters;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Emphasises, in that regard, that any cluster-policy measures should be taken on a basis that reflects companies’ needs, including those ofespecially those of innovating SMEs;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses the important role played by eco-innovation, particularly in the context of raising resource efficiency;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses that, along with bigger budgets, it is essential to achieve a critical mass; recommends the use of public procurement for this purpose and emphasises in particular that funding should be directed to those areas where the leverage effect is greatest, in order to generate added value for Europe;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Points to the fact that inappropriate patent policies can hinder innovation, and draws attention to the importance of flows of knowledge so as to boost innovation;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls on the relevant EU bodies to improve – especially for SMEs ¬– the framework conditions for protection of intellectual property (particularly with regard to the costs involved), this being a key factor in innovatents, not least because their cost as well as their quality are a key factor in innovation; points to the fact that poor quality patents place SMEs in an even more difficult situation because SMEs cannot afford patent litigation;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Recommends the promotion of modern IP policies that foster innovation such as patent pooling, common patent platforms, and full rights licenses;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22b. Warns against the proposal to set up an International Patent Court within the United Patent Litigation System draft Treaty, and points to the fact that such a Court would not be counterbalanced by any legislative assembly, let alone the European Parliament;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Emphasises, in that regard, the significance for the European economy of the Community patentdeveloping an SME-friendly Community patent, in tune with the Union's policies on innovation;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Emphasises the need to make conditions in the EU as attractive as possible to researchers and skilled workers, especially in relation to their mobility; stresses the fact that this goes along with improving the working conditions of female researchers;