Final Review of the GLORIA 2022-25 Project

The EU policy agenda highlights industrial innovation as key for competitive sustainability, together with the importance of monitoring and analysing innovation activity in Europe as a basis for research, innovation and industrial policymaking. Since 2004, the Directorate-General Research and Innovation (DG-R&I) and the Joint Research Centre (JRC) jointly produce the EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboards as main deliverables of the GLORIA (GLObal Industrial Research & Innovation Analyses) project. This report summarises key results from a peer review exercise by a group of four external experts to the GLORIA project – Jürgen Janger (Senior Economist at WIFO, Austria, coordinator as primus inter pares), Raquel Ortega Argilés (Professor of Regional Development, Manchester University, United Kingdom), Maria Luisa Mancusi (Professor of Economic Policy, Università Cattolica Milan, Italy and Daniel Gros (Director of the Institute for European Policymaking, Bocconi University, Italy). The findings of the review exercise were discussed and validated at an online workshop with the European Commission on 31 July 2025. The consolidated results of these activities are highlighted in this document.