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This book examines the transformative power of the innovation processes set in motion by the European Green Deal and their impact on the EU Single Market.
The book is structured into two parts: Part I examines the European Green Deal's origins, drivers, and structure, highlighting its novel features and the holistic integration of sustainability across all EU policies. It sheds light on the history and evolution of EU environmental policies, tracing their development from the European Economic Community to the ambitious European Green Deal launched in December 2019. This part argues that the European Green Deal was the result of progressive integration of EU environmental objectives into a comprehensive regulatory body that has evolved organically at various institutional levels since the 1970s, and was galvanised by a nexus of scientific, societal, policy and political drivers that converged before December 2019, urging the adoption of a strategic and accelerated response to pressing climate challenges.
Part II offers an original perspective on the EU Single Market from an 'innovation systems' perspective, centred on the quintessential structural element of the Single Market - the industrial ecosystem. Green Deal-related projects in the EU's Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe innovation programmes triggered significant transformations in the Single Market's knowledge, technology and skills base, paving the way to a "Single Market 2.0". However, while progress is promising, challenges remain. For full economic benefits and long-term success, the technologies developed in this context need to increase their market readiness levels and overcome the difficulties arising from high implementation costs, structural disparities among the Member States, social acceptance, and the insufficient synergies between industrial, competitiveness and innovation policies. These synergies, in particular, are crucial in the EU's rapidly evolving technological landscape and can become the 'North Star' guiding the Single Market's journey on its road to the future.
This book provides valuable insights for policymakers, academic scholars and researchers, policy analysts and practitioners interested in the European Green Deal dynamics and a more competitive Europe.
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Part 1: The European Green Deal: Origins, Drivers, Structure and Novel Features.- Chapter 1. EU 'green' Policies Prior to the European Green Deal .- Chapter 2. Key Drivers of the European Green Deal.- Chapter 3. Novel Features of the European Green Deal.- Part 2: Impact of the European Green Deal on the EU Single Market.- Chapter 4. The EU Single Market: Key Features and Links With the European Green Deal.- Chapter 5. The EU Single Market From an 'innovation System' Perspective: an Analytical Framework.- Chapter 6. European Green Deal Effects on the Single Market From an 'innovation System' Perspective.- Chapter 7. Towards Single Market 2.0. The Innovation Road.
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Marina Ranga is an international scholar in innovation studies, currently working with the University of Warsaw’s Faculty of Management as an Associate Professor of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship and with the University of Seville, as the Manager of its Innovation Hub created within the European University Alliance Ulysseus. Her career spans full-time and visiting positions in leading universities in Europe and the US (Stanford University) and in the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Seville, Spain. She has contributed to innovation policy analysis and implementation for over 20 years through a wide range of advisory, consulting, review and evaluation projects for the European Commission and UN bodies, national and regional government agencies and professional bodies. With extensive knowledge of EU research and innovation policies and financial instruments, she was an Advisor (Fellow) in the 2023-2024 Fellowship Programme for Economic Expert Advice to the European Commission’s Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) and the Chair of the Advisory Group on Horizon 2020 “Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation”. She is the Chair of the Strategic Advisory Board of Imperial College London's Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering in the UK and an Advisory Board member of the Accreditation Council for Entrepreneurial and Engaged Universities. She holds a PhD and a MSc in Science and Technology Policy (SPRU, Sussex University, UK).
