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"en.20140114.25.2-155-000"2
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"This report is not without merit, and demonstrates how the European Structural and Investment funds can be leveraged to support and develop effective synergies between universities, higher education institutes, entrepreneurs and businesses. As Conservatives, we want Local Enterprise Partnerships in the UK to make research and innovation a key priority in their development strategies, and to take maximum advantage of the next 7-year EU funding period.
This report deals with an area of real added EU value, and the UK has long been a leader in Europe is this particular area. We acknowledge the utmost importance of Horizon 2020 to our top research institutions, universities and entrepreneurs, and welcome that this report highlights how the EU’s Cohesion policy is slowly moving away from a top-down grants-based system.
Nonetheless, we cannot accept the emphasis that this report places on regional strategies for research and innovation. Conservatives in Government have been at the fore of establishing Local Enterprise Partnerships, inspired by bottom-up collaboration between local economic actors. Having abolished Labour’s failed and bureaucratic Regional Development Agencies, we see the report’s regional stress as harking back to the same top-down rigid structures for regional development policy which we abolished in Government. For these reasons, despite the fact we welcome the main thrust of the rapporteur’s suggestions, Conservatives abstained on this report."@en1
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