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Madam President, Commissioner, my colleagues, knowledge and know-how are the basis of economic competitiveness and of the well-being of society as a whole. The ambitious objectives of Lisbon also threaten to remain so much rhetoric, and will perish like worldly honour, if the success of the European Union in global competition is not based on a high level of education and research.
There are several aspects relating to a comprehensive innovation policy, which many colleagues have already emphasised in their interventions. As European legislators, we should pay particular attention to simplifying legislation and administration. I subscribe to the view of Mr Rübig and of other colleagues, that simplification is a necessity. Enterprise and development activity is excessively restricted by bureaucratic impediments, and small and medium-sized enterprises in particular suffer from this. Besides some form of labour reform, we also need a complete administrative reform, which has already got off to a good start with the White Paper on administrative models.
As you, yourself, said a couple of days ago, our esteemed competitors the United States and Japan are further along the road of promoting and developing innovations than the EU; one of the reasons for this is that in those countries enterprise and risk-taking are rewarded to a significantly greater degree than in Europe. We must create conditions which encourage self-starting and independent initiative. Enterprise can be promoted early among schoolchildren and students. All we need to do is to create the prerequisite conditions in our education systems, for example, in the form of a special business model which young businesses can then adopt.
I also regard the development of human capital as important. It is a significant factor in innovation. A genuine information society must be within the reach of all citizens, and so raising the level of know-how of the entire population is important. The copyright of innovations must also be better protected; this has already been mentioned in other interventions. Even before this, in the course of my work I have stressed the importance of adopting a Community Patent which will cover the entire area of the European Union. The Community Patent would offer complete Union-wide protection for new patents, at the same time significantly reducing the administrative costs of firms.
we need a revolution in thinking which would free us from orthodox thinking and modes of action. We must create conditions which make it possible to produce a whole raft of new ideas, out of which we may perhaps develop that one breakthrough innovation. New technology is not the key to a good future; we need non-conventional thinking in all fields, in firms as well as in public administration."@en1
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