Investigating the Impact of the Innovation Union – I3U

On March 1, 2015 The Institute of Economics, Zagreb began with the implementation of the project Investigating the Impact of the Innovation Union (I3U), obtained as part of the Horizon 2020 program together with a consortium of eight European institutions:

1. UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT (UNU-MERIT), The Netherlands 
2. ISTITUTO DI STUDI PER L'INTEGRAZIONE DEI SISTEMI SCRL (ISIS), Italy
3. SEURECO SOCIETE EUROPEENNE D'ECONOMIE SARL (SEURECO), France
4. WIENER INSTITUT FÜR INTERNATIONALE WIRTSCHAFTSVERGLEICHE (WIIW), Austria
5. UNIVERSITETET I OSLO (UiO), Norway
6. UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES (ULB), Belgium
7. ZENTRUM FÜR EUROPÄISCHE WIRTSCHAFTSFORSCHUNG GmbH (ZEW), Germany
8. SZKOLA GLOWNA HANDLOWA W WARSZAWIE (WERI-SGH), Poland.   

 
The project coordinator is Bart Verspagen from UNU-MERIT.

The Innovation Union has the main objective to strengthen the European innovative potential, and sets 13 general objectives and 34 specific (policy) commitments associated to the objectives, and aimed at stimulating innovation. The objective of this project is to deliver a system of assessment for the commitments. The approach starts from the evaluation of the state of achievement of the individual commitments, but puts crucial emphasis on their effects in the innovation system as a whole, as well as on the economy-wide effects of innovation. The basic idea is to retrace the entire chain of effects of the commitments, from their implementation to their final impact in terms of competitiveness, growth or employment.

EIZ scientists participating in the project are: Dr. Andrea Mervar, Dr. Sonja Radas, Dr. Ivan-Damir Anić, Dr. Edo Rajh and assistant Bruno Škrinjarić. Part of the scientific team are also Dr. Nevenka Čučković from the Institute for Development and International Relations and Dr. Valentina Vučković from the Faculty of Economics and Business.

In November 2015 The Institute of Economics, Zagreb has subcontracted the Institute for Social Research in Zagreb (IDIZ) regarding the realization of a specific task related to „Open Access to Research Results and Research Information Services“ (within WP5 „Promoting Openness and Capitalizing on Europe's Creative Potential“).

Due to the specific knowledge needed in the realization of this task, it will be undertaken by team led by professor Dr. Maja Jokić (IDIZ).

The project runs until September 30, 2018.

Learn more on the project's website.