THE ROLE OF INNOVATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN E.U MEMBER STATES
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Authors:
• Ph.D and senior researcher Dalina ANDREI, email: dalinaandrei@yahoo.com, Afiliation: Economic Forecasting Institute, Romanian AcademyPages:
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Keywords: Sustainable development, R&D expenditure, ecoinnovation
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Abstract:
Sustainable socio-economic development represents the central component of the European Union's ‘Sustainable Development Strategy’ document. The E.U’s economic capacity for innovation, competitiveness and eco-efficiency is here analyzed through indicators like: R&D, labor productivity, eco-innovation and energy intensity The progress of these indicators, in its turn, is analyzed for individual EU Member States in the aim of a large picture drawn for how exactly the EU has performed in terms of objectives and targets written in the initial ‘Strategy’. Ultimately, this below paper bases on the ‘Eurostat’ data on the 2000-2015 interval.
