Just as GE was launching its $200 million ecomagination technology challenge
in July, preliminary results were also being released from the
wide-ranging “GE Innovation Barometer” — an independent survey of 240
Brussels opinion leaders on innovation policies in the European Union.
Today, the full results were published, coming at a time when the theme
of innovation is a hotly debated topic across Europe as the EU has
placed innovation at the core of its 2020 strategy and the European
Commission’s much-anticipated Innovation Strategy report and action
plans will soon be issued. Among the key themes that emerged from
today’s report are the need to remove barriers to innovation; a call for
more public-private partnerships; and a strong desire to develop
policies that encourage more entrepreneurial risk-taking and venture
capital investing. As one respondent said in the survey: “I see other
countries like the United States as not so much having good policies on
innovation but creating an environment that fosters an innovative
spirit.” And as Nani Beccalli-Falco, President and CEO of GE
International, succinctly said in the Barometer’s foreward: “We have a
choice: to innovate or stagnate.”
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