Translation of "Business Innovation Access Program " (English → French) :

Foster and facilitate innovation, access to sustainable financing and the business environment for sport and the sport-related industries.

12. Suggests using the framework of the ECIA (European Creative Industries Alliance) to provide a platform for access to information and advice on investment readiness and long-term business strategies, access to loans, guarantee funds and cross-border private investment, and calls for the possibility of establishing a Creative Industries Bank to be explored; recognises, further, the effectiveness of EU programmes such as the Programme for ...[+++]Innovation and Competitiveness in enabling SMEs to access financing, and suggests that the Commission should assess the possibility of devising similar specific programmes for CCIs;

O. whereas the Trade Commissioner invited the opinion of the Parliament during the 20 October 2010 plenary on the outstanding issue of whether to include patents in the Civil Enforcement sections; whereas ACTA negotiators have asserted that "ACTA will not hinder the cross-border transit of legitimate generic medicines"; whereas Parliament in its resolution and written declaration has declared that any measure aimed at strengthening powers of cross-border inspection and seizure of goods should not harm global access to legal, affordable and safe medicines; whereas EU Council Regulation 1383/2003, the provisions of which are being discu ...[+++]ssed in a WTO dispute case, provides border enforcement measures for in-transit goods; whereas some actors such as businesses in the pharmaceutical sector, manufacturers of generic medicines and global health advocates alert against the inclusion of patents in ACTA and warn of potential detrimental effects on technological innovation, access to medicine and generic competition,

There are solutions which we must support, such as the use of open source programs, which would help speed up software innovation through open contributions and cut costs for businesses using these programs.

Indeed, many problems in the field of innovation require a more comprehensive policy approach related to optimising of the business environment by measure, such as: cutting the 'red tape', investing in education and training, high quality infrastructure, a patent regime conducive to innovation, access to risk capital, encouraging entrepreneurial spirit, removing obstacles to free movement of workers and researchers within the EU, a ...[+++]nd adopting a common policy for legal immigration that enables Europe to attract the best and the brightest.

Innovative approaches in areas such as public transport, the organization of public space and the protection of borders can be envisaged. Space, offers great scope for high technology innovation over time (in particular public investors in the application of Galileo [17] and GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security), the Commission's flagship space programmes. These need to share their knowledge of the system and its scope for business with pote ...[+++]ntial downstream users in the space and non-space sectors, to raise their awareness of potential space-based solutions). Transport, where the demand for energy efficiency provides great opportunities. Marine technologies and products allowing for new uses of the sea such as deep sea drilling, blue biotech exploitation, offshore mariculture and renewable energies, ocean space monitoring and surveillance technologies offer promising scope. Health, which has a huge growth potential for innovative products and services (including in particular e-Health, and the provision of customized solutions to allow elderly people to continue to live independently, pharmaceuticals and medical devices where innovation can bring direct benefits to patients and improve competitiveness), or well-being and culture (for instance creative content services, which gain a new dimension with the rollout of broadband networks, allowing citizens and businesses to access all kind of creative contents such as audiovisual, games, cultural information at home and in mobility) are examples of markets where the public sector has a role to play.