GLORIA · Global Industrial Research & Innovation Analyses

GLORIA provides evidence to support the EU and national level policy-making in key areas of research and innovation policy. It builds on the IRIMA (Industrial Research Investment Monitoring and Analysis) projects undertaken together with DG RTD since 2004, but gives more emphasis on the analyses of global industrial research and its feed into the policy cycle. It continues the analysis of company data from the sample of world top 2500 R&D innovators, but takes a new policy focus on industrial dynamics. Much more than being big direct employers, producers and innovators, the top R&D innvators have huge indirect market and innovation power. They control supply and distribution chains, help smaller firms grow and internationalise, own participations in start-ups, provide work experience for future entrepreneurs, spin-off technologies, and collaborate with Universities and public research institutions for knowledge. Therefore, GLORIA focuses on detecting differences in industrial dynamics across regions and countries, and on better understanding the behaviour of top R&D innovators to harness globalisation. Capitalising on the interaction with companies within the project, company-level data is further disentangled into companies' different innovation investments, technological portfolios and their geographic distribution across countries and regions. This is crucial because Europe aspires to host (and eventually reshore) the R&D activities of leading innovative multinational firms, rather than seeing these offshored to other countries, and remove barriers to entrepreneurship, firm growth and employment. This activity not only reaps information from companies but also provides a structured dialogue with them. GLORIA benefits from the close coordination with DG RTD as key success factor for the project. This position leverages the project to gather information across the EU from Member States, businesses, public institutions and academia, resulting in unique capacity to d