Activities of Iosif MATULA related to 2011/2107(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
EU research and innovation funding (debate)
Amendments (5)
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 2
2. Iin the light of the future gearing of cohesion policy to the Europe 2020 Strategy, calls for the ‘innovation’ priority to be binding on the regions, which must also be reflected in the funding allocated; stresses that the main challenge for the EU and for the Member States and regions is to create synergies between the different funding instruments for research and innovation in both public and private sectors, in order to support innovations in society based on ‘public- private-people’ partnerships in the context of achieving the goals of the Europe 2020 strategy;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the regions, in line with the ‘smart specialisation’ approach, to develop tailored innovation strategies; stresses that territorial cooperation must be optimised with a view to greater complementarity between regions; advocates a ‘bottom-up’ approach to innovation at local level; stresses the need to develop partnerships between local and regional authorities and research centres with a view to identifying feasible development solutions; believes that local and regional authorities should be encouraged to innovate, notably via initiatives of the type ‘Regions of Knowledge’, ‘Living Labs’ and ‘Smart Cities’;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
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4. Points out that innovation above all lies at the interface with practice; recommends, therefore, as the necessary complement to excellence in research, placing the focus of regional support on support for applications, without preventing research capacity from being built up, in order above all to enable companies to develop innovative methods; is aware of the gap between new knowledge in the research field and the act of putting it into practice at ground level; calls for concrete measures in the context of the regional policy instruments with a view to transforming the results of research into innovation, of such a nature as to be adaptable to the local and regional levels and applicable Europe-wide;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 5
5. In the light of the need to improve the extent to which SMEs are benefiting from support for research and innovation, considers that this should be made a focus of cohesion policy, for example in relation to internationalisation or promotion of entrepreneurship; believes that enterprises need to be encouraged to innovate on the basis of fuller use of the regional resources available to them; favours introducing ‘one-stop shop’ initiatives in the form of centres offering, under one roof, useful information to SMEs, universities, research centres, regional authorities and other potential beneficiaries of EU, national and local research and innovation funding;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission, despite the differences in systems of governance, to aim to achieve maximum harmonisation of rules for the funding of programmes; recommends that the Commission take measures for the consolidation of the single market, and especially the digital single market, and finance large-scale R & D initiatives for implementing the results of research at global level;