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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to begin by congratulating the rapporteur, Mrs del Castillo Vera, on her report. I should like to broach two subjects: the issue of building the European research area and the issue of small and medium-sized enterprises.
Building the European research area means building the single market for that most precious of commodities: knowledge. For that reason, we must apply the same determination to the construction of this market that Europe, as a whole, applied to the completion of the monetary Union and of the single market for other goods.
We will be launching the seventh framework programme in a few months’ time, and the Union still presents a very, indeed overly, varied landscape of national and regional systems for research and innovation and, consequently, we are not working together as a team. This is to the detriment of systematic cooperation and efficiency. If we want to fulfil the Lisbon Strategy, then all of the actors involved, in the public and private sectors, at regional, national and Community levels, will each have to make a contribution through complementary and synergistic measures, and develop systems that are not merely political but consistent and mutually compatible.
As regards small and medium-sized enterprises, many sources attribute the fall in productivity, and therefore in the productivity of the Italian economy, to the fact that there is little innovation in Italy. This is because, in many Italian companies, there is a perception that new technologies are basically pointless or superfluous. This negative attitude is linked to the small scale of our businesses, which have an average of four employees, but, although the phenomenon is particularly serious in my country, it also concerns most of Europe. In this connection, I propose that, over and above the various support measures for small and medium-sized enterprises provided for by Mrs del Castillo Vera's report – which I fully support – we launch training initiatives aimed specifically at small entrepreneurs, to make it clear to them that innovation has become necessary for survival.
Finally, I call on the Member States and the regions, while acknowledging research and innovation as a top priority, not to lose too much time in transposing the legislation and in starting to implement the various programmes and actions, because time is precious when it comes to innovation."@en1
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