Engineering and Creativity. Romanian Policy Regarding Innovation and Scientific Research Devalopment

Abstract

The goal of Lisbon Agenda is to make the EU "the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth improving skiels for more and better jobs and greater social cohesion and respect for the environment by 2010’. Enhancing translation of this process into concrete measures led to the extension of the Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development (FPs) into FP7 and the Joint Technology Initiatives (JTI). This article presents a comparison between the concepts of CREATIVITY and INNOVATION and the Romanian policy concerning the scientific research and innovation taking into consideration the necessity to retrieve the lagging in comparison with western Europe.