TAILIEUCHUNG - EU research and innovation funding – immediate changes to cut red tape for researchers and SMEs

Yet, despite progress in the identification of problems and the development of improved methodologies -- and the possibility of regulatory initiatives that feature mandated environmental accounting -- the field lacks a methodology for evaluating the social and private benefits of improved environmental accounting. Whether regulators continue to motivate EA indirectly via outreach to the private sector, or more directly via incentives such as tax breaks or mandates, private sector resources and regulatory attention should be focused on initiatives that promise the greatest benefit. Within the private sector, one would be hard pressed to find a manager who would disagree with the proposition that more accurate, detailed. | MEMO 11 38 Brussels 24th January 2011 EU research and innovation funding - immediate changes to cut red tape for researchers and SMEs Why is simplifying research funding important Research and Innovation are at the core of the EU s Europe 2020 strategy for growth and jobs as set out under the Innovation Union flagship initiative. A pre-requisite for delivering the best results is that research programmes are highly attractive and accessible to researchers European industry and entrepreneurs universities and other research and innovation actors. This requires clarity of objectives and instruments consistency and stability of rules and lightness and speed of administrative procedures. The improvement adopted will feed through into better research results achieved more efficiently and lead to new products and services that will create new sources of growth and jobs. European Framework Programmes invest large sums of money - well over 50 billion between 2007 and 2013 for the Seventh Framework Programme alone - and it is very important not least in a time of austerity to get the best possible value for every euro spent. How did the rules get so complicated in the first place Over 25 years the scope and budget of the EU s Research Framework Programme has expanded significantly. This resulted in more participants and more diverse funding schemes and of course a need for more controls to ensure that the EU funds are spent correctly. Moreover changing political and economic priorities have led to ad-hoc actions with different sets of conditions to promote particular areas of research or research sectors. Thus a number of different rules and administrative procedures were developed to optimise European effort in research but participation in EU-funded projects became more complex. More broadly simplification also requires bridging the gap between funding rules and principles specific to the Framework Programme and a wide range of accounting practices used for other purposes

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