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"Mr President, first of all a comment on SMEs, which represent the backbone of our economy. We must therefore facilitate their ability to operate and trade across Europe, especially in the creative and media sector. Any strategy on SMEs must include support for cooperatives, social enterprises and alternative business models because these have so much potential for a more ethical way of doing business and can bring about accountability to the private sector. We must also ensure that vulnerable excluded groups have access to entrepreneurship education, particularly women and girls who face greater obstacles and prejudice.
With reference to innovation and the need to build synergies between cohesion policy and innovation strategies, innovation is by definition a cross-cutting concept. So I welcome the efforts to better coordinate funding tools that are crucial for the sustainable development of European regions in both urban and rural areas. Last July I attended the European Science Open Forum in Manchester in my Northwest constituency where I co—hosted a session on the links between the arts and science together with my colleague Eva Kaili. This session confirmed the demand in both communities to change the silo mentality. Businesses, scientists and artists all argued in favour of a more global approach to innovation and to jointly explore their common impact on societies. This should be the essence of smart specialisation strategies. They should not only be seen as a tick-box exercise."@en1
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