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innovation </a></h3><div class="field field-name-field-core-description field--field-core-description"><div class=field__items><p class=paragraph>The EU promotes competitiveness, innovation, key enabling technologies and corporate social responsibility, whilst protecting industrial property rights.</div></div></div></div><li class=listing__item><div class="listing__item__wrapper node node-policy node-teaser view-mode-teaser"typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document"about=/info/strategy/business-and-industry/entrepreneurship-and-small-business_en><div class=listing__column-main><h3 class=listing__title><a title="Entrepreneurship and small business"href=http://ec.europa.eu/growth/smes_en> Entrepreneurship and small business </a></h3><div class="field field-name-field-core-description field--field-core-description"><div class=field__items><p class=paragraph>The EU wants to create a business friendly environment for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).</div></div></div></div><li class=listing__item><div class="listing__item__wrapper node node-policy node-teaser view-mode-teaser"typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document"about=/info/strategy/business-and-industry/space-technology_en><div class=listing__column-main><h3 class=listing__title><a title="Space technology"href=http://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/space_en> Space technology </a></h3><div class="field field-name-field-core-description field--field-core-description"><div class=field__items><p class=paragraph>The EU wants to use space-related technology to tackle some of today's most pressing challenges. The main programmes are Galileo, EGNOS and Copernicus.</div></div></div></div><li class=listing__item><div class="listing__item__wrapper node node-policy node-teaser view-mode-teaser"typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document"about=/info/strategy/business-and-industry/circular-economy_en><div class=listing__column-main><h3 class=listing__title><a title="Circular economy"href=http://ec.europa.eu/environment/circular-economy/index_en.htm> Circular economy </a></h3><div class="field field-name-field-core-description field--field-core-description"><div class=field__items><p class=paragraph>A new circular economy strategy will transform Europe into a more competitive resource-efficient economy, addressing a range of economic sectors.</div></div></div></div><li class=listing__item><div class="listing__item__wrapper node node-policy node-teaser view-mode-teaser"typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document"about=/info/strategy/business-and-industry/security-industry_en><div class=listing__column-main><h3 class=listing__title><a title="Security industry"href=http://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/industry-for-security_en> Security industry </a></h3><div class="field field-name-field-core-description field--field-core-description"><div class=field__items><p class=paragraph>The European Commission contributes funding and works on harmonising certification procedures for security technologies.</div></div></div></div><li class=listing__item><div class="listing__item__wrapper node node-policy node-teaser view-mode-teaser"typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document"about=/info/strategy/business-and-industry/european-market-space-data_en><div class=listing__column-main><h3 class=listing__title><a title="European market for space data"href=http://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/space/copernicus_en> European market for space data </a></h3><div class="field field-name-field-core-description field--field-core-description"><div class=field__items><p class=paragraph>The Copernicus programme provides data on Earth's environment, and emergency and crisis situations, which is then transformed into added-value information.</div></div></div></div></ul></div></div><div class="field field-name-social-bookmark-webtools field--social-bookmark-webtools"><div class=field__items><section class="block block-dt-social-media-sharing clearfix"id=block-dt-social-media-sharing-social-media-sharing><div class=block__content><div class=social-media-links--webtool-horizontal><span class=social-media-links__label> Share this page: </span><script type=application/json>
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