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This technical note summarizes the feasibility study which was performed in response to a request by the European Research Area Committee (ERAC)’s Working Group on Monitoring the ERA Roadmap...

The present JRC audit endorses the statistical soundness and reliability of the GII index as a benchmarking tool for innovation practices at the country level around the world. Needless to say, the usefulness...

The Global Forest Trade Model (GFTM) is a partial equilibrium model of the global forest sector, with a European focus. GFTM shares the classical economic-mathematical formulation used by similar...

In the polarized climate change debate, cost-benefit analyses of policy options are taking on an increasingly influential role. These analyses have been presented by authoritative scholars...

This report describes the 2015 update of the composite indicators on scientific and technological research excellence, and presents the outcomes of a sensitivity analysis addressing the key underlying modelling assumptions. We...

Facts and figures on biomass, turnover and employment

In European forestry, one essential, although not yet available information, was the distribution of the forest tree species in the European wide territory. This first Atlas of Forest...

Bioeconomy has gained political momentum since 2012 when the European Commission adopted the strategy “Innovating for Sustainable Growth: A Bioeconomy for Europe”. Assessing the environmental performance of different...