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"Madam President, I should like to congratulate Mr Rübig for approaching his report with such an open mind and, of course, to agree that innovation concerns entrepreneurship and employment. However, we need it not just to serve the economy, the knowledge-driven economy in today's society, we also need it to serve the knowledge-driven and cultural society. Because innovation is not just an economic and business factor, it is also an educational and cultural factor. More to the point, it is the result of mutual and complex actions and reactions between education, research, the administration and the public.
Innovative procedures presuppose a dynamic social model which is receptive to change. In fact, innovation does not depend solely or exclusively on technological factors, it also depends on organisational factors. A propitious environment is the main requirement, so that new initiatives, new discoveries and scientific applications can be developed, which is why we need social components working together, we need close cooperation between businesses and scientific institutions, as well as schools and universities, and we also need the help of the media if an innovative culture is to mature in our society as a whole. Innovation must be the property of every member of society. That is how our society will work in new directions, opening up new paths.
Europe needs an approach to innovation which will directly serve society as a whole. However, we know that there are quite a few negative structural factors which prevent us from progressing as far as we should. We are quite a way behind and I think that this is a bitter but honest admission, which is why we need the measures proposed in the report, together with suitable educational systems that nurture innovation. Innovation is a process of analysis and synthesis and young people – mainly students – need therefore to play a part. We must take care to ensure that we do not just inflict talk and chalk on young people and that they take an active part in the innovative process during their studies and both inside and outside school.
We must cultivate this approach at all levels of education. It is important to have cross-disciplinary syllabuses in tertiary education. We must bring the exact and the theoretical sciences close together, however difficult that may seem. We must also understand that we need better penetration of university research institutes and of scientific libraries via the Internet. I should like to highlight this sector in particular, because we are still a long way from having the really efficient network of libraries in Europe that is an absolute must.
Finally, we should take steps to provide better protection for intellectual property because this is what can invigorate and foster the incentive for our scientists to innovate. That is why it is also extremely important for us to promote the application of European patent law."@en1
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