Activities of Judith A. MERKIES related to 2009/2227(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT Report on Community innovation policy in a changing world PDF (201 KB) DOC (128 KB)
Amendments (16)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas innovation is the key to meeting the EU’s current grand societal challenges and realising its strategic political goals in areas including competitiveness, climate change, employment, demographic change and climate changean inclusive society,
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas innovation makes use of ever scarcer resource and sustainable resources must be at the heart of European policies; whereas, in order to enable every society to innovate, the access to and distribution of scarce resources must be on a fair basis,
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses the need to gear innovation towards medium and long term supporting solutions to grand societal challenges, such as climate change, ageing, unemployment, competitiveness, inclusion, and scarce resources;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls on the Commission to set ambitious innovation benchmarks focusing on grand societal challenges and to cut the current fragmentation of different European initiatives;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Stresses the importance of involving all citizens in creative and innovative processes at all levels in order to enable citizens to become drivers of innovation in a knowledge economy;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to combine the roll-out of next generation digital networks and smart grids with innovation activities in order to reap fully their benefits; stresses in this context that sufficient funding has to be foreseen, including from the Structural Funds;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses the centralimportant role played by SMEs both as partners in value chains and as independent providers of innovative products;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls for a radical new European approach to financing innovation and to prevent the current fragmentation and short-termism; considers that the provision of adequate financial resources is vital to the development of innovation and that the EU budget for innovation should therefore be substantially increased;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the EIB, in close cooperation with the Commission, to develop social innovation financing schemes to shift the focus from return on investment to social returns; calls on the Commission and the Member States to use structural funds to incentivise large- scale innovation at EU level;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the EU regulatory framework supports innovation rather than constitutes barriers to change;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Emphasises that the EU bodies’ joint efforts should be directed at bridging the gaps between research and, innovation and between product marketabilitypractical application and commercialisation;