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Between April and November 2004, Wim Kok headed up a review of the program and presented a report on the Lisbon strategy suggesting how to give new impetus to the process. shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Willem Wim Kok ( ) (born September 29, 1938 in Bergambacht) is a Dutch politician. ...

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The Commission used this report to declare the social and environmental aspects of the Lisbon Agenda were no longer a priority and that instead the strategy would be revised to focus on the economic context only.

Background and objectives

The Lisbon Strategy intends to deal with the low productivity and stagnation of economic growth in the EU, through the formulation of various policy initiatives to be taken by all EU member states. The broader objectives set out by the Lisbon strategy are to be attained by 2010. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

It was adopted for a ten-year period in 2000 in Lisbon, Portugal by the European Council. It broadly aims to "make Europe, by 2010, the most competitive and the most dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world". Location    - Country Portugal    - Region Lisboa  - Subregion Grande Lisboa  - District or A.R. Lisbon Mayor Carmona Rodrigues  - Party PSD Area 84. ...

The Strategy

The main fields are economic, social, and environmental renewal and sustainability. The Lisbon Strategy is heavily based on the economic concepts of: Sustainability is an attempt to provide the best outcomes for the human and natural environments both now and into the indefinite future. ...

• Innovation as the motor for economic change (based on the writings of Joseph Schumpeter)
• The "learning economy"
• Social and environmental renewal

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An EU research group ^{[attribution needed]} found in 2005 that current progress had been judged "unconvincing", so a reform process was introduced wherein all goals would be reviewed every three years, with assistance provided on failing items.

Key thinkers and concepts

Contemporary key thinkers on whose works the Lisbon Strategy is based and/or who were involved in its creation include Maria João Rodrigues, Christopher Freeman, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, Luc Soete, Carlota Perez, Manuel Castells, Giovanni Dosi, and Richard Nelson. Christopher Freeman is an English economist, the founder and first director of SPRU Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Sussex, and one of the most eminent modern Kondratieff wave/business cycle theorists and neo-Schumpeterians. ... Carlota Perez is a Venezuelan scholar and expert on technology and socio-economic development most famous for her concept of Techno-Economic Paradigm Shifts and her theory of great surges, a further development of the Kondratieff waves. ... Manuel Castells (b. ... It has been suggested that Dosi be merged into this article or section. ... Poseidon is a movie remake of the classic disaster film The Poseidon Adventure, based on the novel by Paul Gallico. ...

Key concepts of the Lisbon Strategy include those of the Knowledge Economy, Innovation, Techno-Economic Paradigms, Technology Governance, and the "Open Method" of Coordination (OMC). A knowledge economy is either economy of knowledge focused on the economy of the producing and management of knowledge, or a knowledge-based economy. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The open method of coordination or OMC is a relatively new and intergovernmental means of governance in the European Union, based on the voluntary cooperation of its member states. ...

Bibliography

• Maria Joao Rodrigues (2003), European Policies for a Knowledge Economy, Edward Elgar.

See also

• Community patent
• Sapir Report
• Economy of the European Union
• Knowledge triangle
• European Institute of Technology (EIT)

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Lobbying around the strategy

• European Trade Union Confederation, (ETUC update on the Lisbon strategy)
• Transatlantic Business Dialogue, which took part in the report for a new restart of the agenda
• Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederations of Europe (UNICE)

The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) was established in 1973 to provide a trade union counterbalance to the economic forces of European integration. ... The Transatlantic Business Dialogue (TABD) offers a framework for cooperation between the transatlantic business community and the governments of the European Union (EU) and United States of America (US). ... The Union of Industrial and Employers Confederations of Europe, commonly known as UNICE, is a Brussels-based European industry association. ...

External links

• Official EU summary on the Lisbon Strategy
• Official Website for the Lisbon Strategy
• Portuguese Official Website on the Lisbon Strategy