Centre for the Development of Educational Technology

Regional Centre for Educational Innovation and Technology

Latin American Centre for Educational Technology in Health

International Centre for the Promotion of Canadian Products and Technology

The government should continue to promote technology with Canada's youth and continue to fund centres of technology excellence, such as universities and community colleges.

(b) promoting business RI investment, product and service development, technology transfer, spin-offs, start-ups, social and organizational innovation and public service applications, eco-innovation, demand stimulation, collaborative RI projects, networks of excellences, national/regional research facilities and technology centres, competence centres and science parks, graduate and master education ...[+++], clusters and open innovation through smart specialisation;

The proposal to establish the European Institute of Technology is important for the world of education and science, particularly in the new Member States of the Union, because it increases the opportunities for direct cooperation between educational and scientific institutes in those countries and the most progressive European bodies, as well as European business, while at the same time encouraging applications for funds from Union educational programm ...[+++]es.

52. Remains concerned that previous innovation and competitiveness programmes have failed to deliver the necessary link between fundamental and applied research and industrial innovation partly due to the fact that the financial resources were rather limited; believes that the support of the European public is indispensable for realising the Lisbon goals; considers that the Commission should propose a simplification of its financial procedures with a view to facilitating the implementation of research policy; considers that financial instruments need to be rethought in a more fine-tuned, targeted way and that the establishment of an ambitious programme for competitiveness and innovation endowed with adequate financial resources is vital ...[+++]for supporting a "prosperity" oriented industrial policy, notably for SMEs, that would successfully capitalise on research through industrial applications, such as technology transfer from universities and research centres into industrial application; considers that further steps should be taken to foster development of the information society as proposed by the Commission, developing and promoting international standards for ICT and mobile telecommunication technology, monitoring the implementation of the electronic communications legislative framework, supporting EU benchmarking activities in the field of eEurope action plan initiatives and further enhancing EU security research; regards such a programme as essential in order to achieve the objectives of the Lisbon Strategy in the sphere of new technologies and ecotechnologies; considers that adequate funding must be secured through the 7th EU Research Programme (FP7) and the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) for the EU Action Plan for Environmental Technologies (ETAP); calls for adequate funding for the support of innovative SMEs and initiatives aimed at helping the commercialisation of research and the transfer of technology, notably through the Euro ...