Activities of Alejo VIDAL-QUADRAS related to 2010/2245(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Innovation Union: transforming Europe for a post-crisis world (debate)
Amendments (27)
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 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Innovation Union flagship initiative, which is the most significant and concrete attempt so far to introduce a strategic, integrated and market-oriented European innovation policy, whose success though depends on the full cooperation of – and its implementation by –the Member States;
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 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Considers that in order to guarantee the success of the new instruments for innovation that are going to be developed in the EU2020 Strategy is necessary to approve clear and specific 'Rules of Participation' that include an obligatory proportion of small and micro enterprises;
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 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the Commission's proposal for the development of a single integrated indicator allowing better monitoring of progress in innovation, involving primarily enterprises that, since the very beginning and in a concrete way, are committed in evaluating innovation; urges further development of the ‘scoreboard’ by means of international cooperation;
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 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to introduce a better method of financing innovation, by creating synergies and merging Research & Development & Innovation (R&D&I) support programmes where possible, for example the FPs, Joint Technology Initiatives, the CIP, Joint Programmes, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology and the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan, and to direct structural funding and parts of the Common Agricultural Policy funds and Emission Trading Scheme auction revenues toto innovation; recalls on the Members States to respect their commitment to devote 50% of ETS revenues to finance climate related action, including innovation projects; joins the Council in calling for a new balance between trust and control, and between risk-taking and risk avoidance;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Asks the European Commission to present to the European Parliament an external evaluation about the innovation instruments created inside the Seventh Framework Programme like Technological Platforms and JTIs where the evaluation should include activities, calls, innovation projects and results (if they exist) and the economic contribution from public and private funds;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Welcomes the Commission proposal to define specific investments addressed to innovative start-ups;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Urges the European Commission to follow the recommendation of the Interim Evaluation of the Seventh Framework Programme (Expert Group) when it asks for a moratorium on new instruments that should be considered until the existing ones have been sufficiently developed and adequately evaluated; therefore, calls for special precaution to be taken in order to avoid confusion due to the proliferation of instruments;
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;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Calls on the EU to conduct a study on the obstacles it has itself created to the development of research and innovation in Europe by bringing forward the expiry date for patents, introducing the precautionary principle across the board, giving legal form to the principle of substitution without any specific impact assessments and adopting the Reach Regulation without taking into account quality considerations or exemptions and without having checked for any adverse impact it might have on industrial activity;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Urges the Member States to direct their public procurement towards innovative products, processes and services; calls, therefore, on the Commission, in its legislative proposals, to facilitate innovation enabling public procurement, including a review of pre-commercial procurement opportunities, and calls on the Member States to increase their green ppromote Green Public Procurement as defined in the Commission Communication COM/2008/400 Public pProcurement for a better environment;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 – point 5
Paragraph 32 – point 5
· encompass all research and innovation programmes, including the EIT's Knowledge and Innovation Communities;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 point 5 a (new)
Paragraph 32 point 5 a (new)
· involve all relevant public and private partners along the supply chains, in the selection and development of the future partnerships, as well as in the definition of their governance models,
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 point 5 b (new)
Paragraph 32 point 5 b (new)
· better coordinate existing instruments and initiatives