Europe 2020 strategy. But in merger control, assessments of the innovation effects of mergers are inadequate, even though …

. There is therefore an increasing research and innovation divide in Europe. * The European Union, with its growing R …

, and on developed exit markets. Poor returns from early-stage investments in Europe on a smaller deal flow have … significantly reduced the appetite for early-stage venture capital. This exodus has left a funding gap in Europe for aspiring …

Europe's failure to specialise in new ICT sectors and firms is likely to hold back Europe's post-crisis recovery …. Europe lacks in particular leading platform providers, who are capturing most of the value in the new ICT ecosystem. In …-depth analysis of some specific new emerging ICT sectors shows that the problem in Europe appears not to be so much in the generation …