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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, research and development are of crucial importance to increasing Europe’s growth potential and to creating new jobs. The EU cannot become competitive by reducing wages but must instead pin its hopes on developing new technology and human capital. In spite of the Lisbon Strategy’s objective of turning Europe into the most dynamic, knowledge-based region in the world, Europe constantly limps behind the United States and Japan when it comes to research and innovation. I think that, in this report, we have put our finger very precisely on those areas in which Europe fails to live up to its own objectives. Europe does not create enough knowledge and neither shares it effectively nor funds it sufficiently.
Research is important, but we must also bear in mind that most European companies are not high-tech gazelle companies. Instead, they are small, traditional businesses. Those businesses too must also be innovative and become better at exploiting new market opportunities for new products and at devising new business processes that make better use of employees’ potential. The report succeeds in offering a broad perspective on the development of knowledge. I am particularly pleased about the integrated access to labour market and education policy, since it is only by combining businesses’ conditions for innovation with social, labour market and education policy that we can create space for employees’ creative potential. A highly qualified workforce adapts better to businesses’ quickly changing needs, and education also helps to spread knowledge. Europe has a need for more and better investment in education.
I should also like to emphasise that I consider equality to be a crucial dimension of the EU’s Lisbon Strategy. We cannot afford to ignore the equality perspective if we are to achieve our objectives for the competitiveness of the EU. It is estimated that the EU must attract and train between 600 000 and 700 000 new researchers in order to fulfil our research needs, and this figure does not take account of many older people’s withdrawal from the labour market. We simply cannot afford to ignore the research potential to be found in the female half of the population.
Last of all, I should like to point out that, in our innovation strategy, we should, in my view, incorporate sustainability in relation to both the environment and social inclusion. Sustainability should be the basic principle, enabling us to ensure that the EU moves forward and thinks both in the long-term and globally. In this area, Europe clearly has a head start, which can in itself help ensure that we achieve the goals we set in the Lisbon Strategy."@en1
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