APPENDIX 4: GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
BIS Department for Business, Innovation
and Skills
BRIICS countries Brazil, the Russian Federation,
India, Indonesia,
China, South Africa
CIP Competitiveness and Innovation
Framework
Programme
EARTO European Association of Research and
Technology
Organisations
Eban The European Trade Association
for Business Angels,
Seed funds and other Early Stage Market Players
EFSA European Food Standards Agency
EIT European Institute of Innovation
and Technology
ERA-Nets European Research Area Networks
ERC European Research Council
EU European Union
EUnetHRA European Network for Health Technology
Assessment Programme
EVCA European Private Equity and Venture Capital
Association
FP6 The Sixth Framework Programme of the European
Union for the funding of research and technological development
in Europe
FP7 The Seventh Framework Programme of the European
Union for the funding of research and technological development
in Europe
GDP Gross Domestic Product
Horizon 2020 The financial instrument which
will implement the
strategies outlined in the Innovation Union
initiative
(COM (2011) 809)
ICT Information and Communications
Technology
IMCO European Parliament Internal
Market and Consumer Protection Committee
IP regime Intellectual Property regime
IPR Intellectual Property Rights
ITRE European Parliament's Industry,
Research and Energy
Committee
JTIs Joint Technology Initiatives
KICs Knowledge and Innovation
Communities
MFF Multi-Annual Financial Framework
NESTA National Endowment for Science,
Technology and
the Arts
NHS National Health Service
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development
R&D Research and Development
R&I Research and Innovation
SMEs Small and Medium Enterprises
STEM Science, Technology, Engineering
and Mathematics
TAFTIE The European Network of Innovation
Agencies
TSB Technology Strategy Board
UEAPME European Association of Craft,
Small and Medium-
sized enterprises
UKTI UK Trade and Investment
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