Annual Impact Report of EUREKA 2005

This report presents the findings of an independent review of the socio-economic impact of EUREKA projects. It has been prepared by a panel of experts mandated to provide an Annual Impact Report based upon the analysis of the detailed economic and other impacts of selected case studies of Individual and Cluster Projects and upon analysis of the relevant Final Reports submitted by participants which constitute the Continuous and Systematic Evaluation database.

The overall conclusion is that EUREKA continues to work well and it achieves its goals of developing technology-based innovative products through R&D projects. By these means it raises the productivity and competitiveness of those parts of European industry that take part as well as creating broader benefits.

Evidence comes from 15 case studies of Individual Projects and nine of projects within the EUREKA
Clusters plus an analysis of Final Reports from the Continuous and Systematic Evaluation (CSE)
database covering 678 participants in 328 projects that finished between 1 January 2001 and 31
December 2005. This gives a coverage of just over half of all projects in this timeframe. The case
studies were based on a methodology designed to examine the full range of effects. Extended
summaries of each of them are presented in this report to give a full picture of effects.