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"Mr President, I should like to comment in a very favourable light on Mr Markov's report and to congratulate him on putting such a constructive report before the House. I find I am in very substantial agreement with most of the points he includes in his document. There are, however, a number of issues on which I would wish to comment.
Firstly, the whole of this report is based upon innovation – and innovation relies on three very important prerequisites. It relies on individuality, inventiveness and initiative. We must therefore strive to avoid anything which would stifle or detract from these important three prerequisites. The report unfortunately refers to many aspects which could be seen as just such interference and over-regulation and therefore as over-complicating the approach to the use of innovation funding. We must avoid being too prescriptive and thus putting up artificial barriers which would prevent us reaching our goals. We need to give incentives to enable new innovatory enterprises to flourish but we must not go down the path of over-interference.
Innovative businesses and innovative projects, by their very nature, involve risk and here, the EU, national governments, regional and local agencies can help, but, as with many innovative ideas, some are destined to fail. Many we hope will succeed. The trick is to know which will succeed and flourish but we should also have the strength to know that when something has failed we should not prop it up at public expense and develop a strategy that takes this into account.
I would also like to flag up that business itself should take the lead in this sort of issue, backed up, of course, with sufficient skills training provided by our universities and colleges. All have a role to play in this important area for, in the truly global market which is now upon us, it is the new ideas – properly resourced, cogently and realistically supported – which will ensure that we in Europe can maintain our place at the forefront of technological development in the new industries and in communications technology in particular. It is my belief that an innovative strategy such as conceived in this report and as implemented by entrepreneurs at an individual level will be the key to economic prosperity in this new millennium.
I commend the report to the House."@en1
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