Services are the largest part of our economy, and offer wide scope for the creation of new jobs and novel markets. Innovation in Europe’s services sectors is trailing compared with other parts of the economy. Better awareness of the power of service innovation is needed amongst policy-makers, companies and all the stakeholders.

As a stakeholder in EU research and innovation, in qualitative foresight and quantitative forecast, in scientific support to policies, do not hesitate to answer to the questions raised in the CSF and in particular to question 11: How should EU research and innovation funding best support policy making and forward-looking activities?

17 to 19 november 2010, Brazilia

Entrepreneurship and innovations includes different types of motivations, knowledge, organisational arrangements covering different stages of the production system. The diversity of studies in many countries within this field shows that it is important not to underestimate the role and variation of managerial practise, firm size, sector, product, organisational forms, capacity, competence, operational dynamics and geographical scale. This session aims to explore various performance motivations and challenges in the developed and the developing world for entrepreneurs and organizers of innovations by taking individual, political, organisational and regional contexts into consideration.

Thanks to all the researchers who where present in Gothenburg

The coming conferences will be held in Hamburg (2011), from 8 th to 10 september around the theme : Productivity Of Services – Beyond Input / Output