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Enterprise and Industry Directorate General

European Commission. Enterprise and Industry Directorate General. Measurement of Competitiveness as the basis for policy development Heikki Salmi , European Commission. KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY – Challenges for measurement Session: Competitiveness and Growth 8-9 December 2005, Luxembourg.

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Enterprise and Industry Directorate General

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  1. European Commission Enterprise and Industry Directorate General Measurement of Competitiveness as the basis for policy development Heikki Salmi, European Commission KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY – Challenges for measurement Session: Competitiveness and Growth 8-9 December 2005, Luxembourg

  2. Industry remains important Policy development, steps Enterprise Directorate General • Better regulation • - Impact assessment • - Consultation • - Alternative policy instruments • - Simplify and improve • Questions, issues • Description of the situation • Policy objectives, measures, options • Facts, statistics, indicators, analysis

  3. Competitiveness – dependent on many policies Competitionpolicy InternalMarket Tradepolicy Regionalpolicy COMPETITIVENESS R&D Socialpolicy Consumer & healthprotection policies Fiscalpolicy Environmental Policy

  4. Why revisit industrial policy? • - Globalisation (i.e. delocalisation of R&D) and enlargement • - Increased societal demands (e.g. environmental protection, health and social development) • - Technological change (i.e. enabling technologies) • - Disappointing productivity performance • - Revisit horizontal approach and its sectoral application • Get back on Lisbon track

  5. New Industrial Policy Communication, aims • EU manufacturing performance • Assessment of 27 sectors based on screening • Combining horizontal and sectoral approaches • Work programme for industrial policy

  6. EU MANUFACTURING PERFORMANCE • Competitiveness analysis based on statistics, indicators and studies • Focus on sectoral competitiveness • What to measure, what is relevant, available • Other criteria: Coverage, long time- series, comparability, consistency, timeliness

  7. EU MANUFACTURING PERFORMANCE- to measure • Importance of the sector: economically, labour force • Economy of scale, SME intensity, market powers • Competitiveness: Productivity development • Growth, dynamism of sectors • Social dimension of growth, reallocation of resources • External competitiveness, comparative advantage

  8. EU MANUFACTURING PERFORMANCE • Sources: Van Ark database and studies, Eurostat • Sectors based mainly on NACE 2-digit level • The screening will be repeated annually

  9. KNOWLEDGE BETTER REGULATION OPEN & COMPETITIVE MARKETS ENVIRONMENT & ENERGY PARTICIPATION IN GLOBAL MARKETS STRUCTURAL CHANGE ASSESSMENT OF THE SECTORS,challenges, opportunities

  10. R&D, innovations Skills and education Competition aspects Energy, emissions Foreign trade Employment, geographic location of industry ASSESSMENT OF THE SECTORS, DATA NEEDS

  11. Clear messages in favour of the Knowledge Economy • Productivity growth gap between EU and other industrialised economies. Reasons are partly structural. Growth engine ICT is smaller • EU trade still in sectors with medium-high technologies and low to intermediate labour skills • Increasing international competition for R&D spending

  12. WORK PROGRAMME FOR INDUSTRIAL POLICY CROSS-SECTORAL INITIATIVES • IPR & Counterfeiting Initiative • High Level Group on Competitiveness, Energy and Environment • External Aspects of Competitiveness and Market Access • New Legislative Simplification Programme • Improving Sectoral Skills • Managing Structural Change in Manufacturing • An Integrated Approach to European Industrial Research and Innovation

  13. WORK PROGRAMME FOR INDUSTRIAL POLICY SECTOR-SPECIFIC INITIATIVES • Pharmaceuticals Forum • Mid-Term Review of Life Sciences & Biotech Strategy • High Level Groups on Chemicals and Defence Industries • European Space Programme • Taskforce on ICT Competitiveness • Mechanical Engineering Policy Dialogue • Competitiveness Studies (ICT, Food, Fashion &Design)

  14. COMBINING HORIZONTAL AND SECTORAL APPROACHES: EXAMPLE challenges X X X X

  15. Pressures on statistics • Geographical coverage: EU-25 • Comparability to competitors and emerging economies • Timeliness: Fresh where development is dynamic • Classifications: More detailed, NACE • Confidentiality. Some data not available • Productivity by sector is the key in competitiveness analysis • Sectoral data needs are increasing • More data on services • More data on SMEs • More data on outsourcing and relocation

  16. Some concluding remarks • More systematic approach to policy development is increasing, better regulation, impact assessment, etc. • Data needs are increasing at least in some policy areas, even more detailed data

  17. Some concluding remarks • What are the capacities of National Statistical Institutes and Eurostat to compete with other data sources, or should there be a new work share • How to fulfill the increasing data needs when at the same time costs have to be decreased • The next mid-term Statistical Programme has a key role to play

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