Governmental websites are good sources for finding information about innovation-related topics: innovation policies, funding opportunities, latest reports…

2.2.1 Innovation reports

INNOBAROMETER
http://www.cordis.lu/innovation-smes/src/innobarometer.htm 
The INNOBAROMETER is an opinion poll carried out by the European Commission in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 in the European Union under the EUROBAROMETER opinion poll system to sound out the opinions of European managers on their companies’ needs in innovation, their investments in innovation and the output achieved.

Innovation policies studies.
http://www.cordis.lu/innovation-policy/studies/ 
The innovation studies aim to analyse priority factors shaping innovative performance and to reflect the increasing appreciation of the economic and social importance of innovation. Analysis and updates are carried out by Commission departments with the help of external technical support (through periodic calls for tender on studies on innovation matters).

El libro blanco de la innovación. Situación en 2004.
Madrid: Fundación COTEC para la Innovación Tecnológica, 2004
http://www.cotec.es/publica/informes.html 
COTEC is a Spanish private foundation created by several firms. Its mission is to contribute to country development through the promotion of technology innovation in the Spanish companies and society. Free access to all their interesting reports and publications allowed.

La Innovación en la empresa española. Cámaras de Comercio
https://www.camaras.org/publicado/CSCExtranet/repositorio/estudios/pdf/otras_pub/innovacion03.pdf
Report written by the “Servicio de Estudios del Consejo Superior de Cámaras de Comercio” about the innovation panorama in Spain.

Innovation Report . Department of Trade and Industry, UK
http://www.dti.gov.uk/innovationreport/ 
This report looks at the contribution that innovation can make to driving up UK productivity and to achieving the vision of the UK as a key knowledge hub in the global economy.

2.2.2 European organizations devoted to innovation

CORDIS. European Innovation Portal.
http://www.cordis.lu/innovation/en/home.html 
This Innovation Portal is designed for all CORDIS users with an interest in innovation, both policy and practice. From this central point, you can access the latest policy documents on innovation, keep up-to-date on the latest news and events, and contact intermediaries that could facilitate the innovation process of your organization, and discover funding opportunities.

CIDEM
http://www.cidem.com/cidem/cat/elcidem/info/cidem_en.jsp 
The Centre for Innovation and Business Development (CIDEM) is an autonomous body of the Ministry of Employment and Industry with the objective of improving Catalonia’s industrial community and increasing the competitiveness in the face of different challenges. The guidelines of industrial policy are: Promotion of Innovation, Technology Transfer and Industrial Location.

National Association of Spanish CEEIs/BICs ANCES
http://www.ances.com/web/index1024.htm 
ANCES is a non-profit association with legal status whose end is to collaborate, by means of supporting and diffusing the CEEIs/BICs, contributing to their experience on the creation of new SMEs and promoting new activities in the existent SMEs, based on innovative elements with potential development. ANCES carries out the actions of institutional representation of all the Spanish CEEIs/BICs.

Innovation. Department of Trade and Industry, UK
http://www.innovation.gov.uk/ 
Innovation portal of the DTI, devoted to promote a significant increase in innovation through the economy. Free innovation reports available: R&D Scoreboard 2004 (Information and analysis on the top 700 R&D companies, globally and in the UK), .2004 Value Added Scoreboard (The top 800 UK & 600 European companies ranked by Value Added), Critical Success Factors: Creating Value from Your Intangibles, A Self-Assessment Tool for Business, etc.