About

The European E-Business Lab is a joint cross-industry initiative launched by successful organisations committed to share and improve e-business best practices, foster adoption, standardisation, innovation and economic integration.

The Laboratory provides a platform for the creation of a user-driven open innovation ecosystem focused on e-business developments. A platform where e-Business users can share best practices and practical guidance, exchange ideas, opinions and validate e-business related processes, standards, new technologies, policies and pilots.

The European E-Business Lab (EBL) has close ties to EU policy makers, standardisation bodies, experts and all relevant stakeholders which will allow the Lab to directly influence and drive changes.

The Lab will voice its members’ needs and recommend solutions to improve the e-Business ecosystem, by iteratively engaging all the key actors across the innovation process and putting the users in the driver’s seat.

Mission
Empowering enterprises to foster e-Business adoption and innovation for the development of an open and interoperable European e-Business ecosystem.

Vision
Based on a harmonised legal and regulatory framework, the future European e-Business ecosystem will be an environment where users can integrate standardised e-business tools into their internal information systems without significant investment and disruption and where all market stakeholders will benefit from a pan-European innovative and competitive level playing field.

Reasons to launch the European Business Lab

1. Many enterprises are not sufficiently aware of and involved in decision making process relating e-business policies, initiatives and legislations that will influence their organisation directly;
2. Information on e-Business practices, products and services is often difficult to find and provided only by interested parties; solving inefficiencies and fostering innovation in the e-Business domain is in the interest of users;
3. Current economic conditions will require enterprises globally to increase focus on operational efficiencies, process automation and co-operation with value chain market participants, whilst leveraging on core business competences.

Objectives

1. To represent the members community with EU institutions and market stakeholders, validating policies, new technologies and initiatives to drive e-Business market developments
2. To build bridges between the members community, European institutions and market stakeholders linking research, practice and policies
3. To provide knowledge and information relating e-Business developments; to identify, formulate and share best practices
4. To promote co-operation between our members, facilitating the participation of SMEs and establishing peer-to-peer platforms to exchange experiences
5. To encourage the development and adoption of common methodologies for value chain automation and standardisation; to support members with the implementation of their e-Business development programmes
6. To promote research and user-driven innovation for new technologies and pilots;
7. To co-operate with other organisations, also outside Europe, to ensure alignment and co-ordination with global e-Business developments