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eEurope, a political agenda aiming to bring Europe’s businesses, citizens and administrations online by 2005, and the European Research Area, targeting creation of a European single market for research, are two major European Union policies that intend to address key challenges for European businesses and workers in the new millennium. The paper shows that R&D efforts under successive European framework programmes for research, development and innovation underpin these policy initiatives and together they offer a coherent approach towards the creation of the largest knowledge-based economy in the world.
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Filos, E. (2003). eEurope and the European Research Area EU Policies to Address Major Business and Work Challenges. In: Sachsenmeier, P., Schottenloher, M. (eds) Challenges Between Competition and Collaboration. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05195-5_11
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