Building innovative society: The European Union innovation policy - is an instrument or is a goal ?

The purpose of this dissertation is to review research on the EU innovation policy to determine success factors to build an innovative society. The reviewed studies highlight different factors for the successful implementation of innovation policy. On this extent, this dissertation focuses specifically on the interaction and collaboration between supply side of the EU innovation policy (policy makers) and the demand side (society-individuals) of the innovation policy and elaboration the governance model of EU 2020 Strategy to assess the taking lessons from the Lisbon Strategy's fail. This dissertation argues that EU innovation policy needs to be designed and remain as an instrument to tackle with the grand challenges (real goal) that are stated by the policy makers of the EU. Thus, now, the name of the game is formation of innovation policies with people (society), not for people. In the light of the findings, this dissertation may stimulate more research in the field of the EU Innovation Policy. Keywords: EU Innovation Policy, the Lisbon Strategy, EU 2020 Strategy, Innovative Society,Social Innovation