Both reports have been used by several governments around the world in assessing and planning their technology and innovation policies.

Such market research will be very important for us in future if we are to see where our innovation policy needs to be focused.

In other contexts, it is usual to applaud Finnish innovation policy.

We are striving for an innovation policy that forms an integrated whole.

We want to make headway in developing a wide-ranging innovation policy.

The cornerstone of innovation policy is the Union's internal market and its further development.

A separate working session was devoted to ways of promoting innovation policy to guarantee the Union's competitiveness and economic growth.

We all agree that Europe needs a more focused innovation policy.

A successful innovation policy must rest on three pillars: political support, finance and orderly legislation.

We need to think about whether Europe's innovation policy even has a future, if regional policy does not support it.