This report is an account of the relationship between the ERA development and German research and innovation policy (R …&I policy. In the last decade, and accelerated in the recent years, the European research policy and subsequently the innovation … at European level research is no longer a stand-alone approach. Instead, innovation has gained rapidly in importance as a …

The importance of social innovation for overcoming societal challenges is now widely recognised. In addition to their … indicators and the well-founded derivation of innovation policy measures. Building on recent research, a conceptual process model … of social innovation is developed and subsequently used to analyse four case studies (energy communities, autonomous …