31. Best practices to bring research and innovation in European SME through the peer review method [EUROPEER SME]

Research and Technological Development is essential for the functioning and sustainability of the European economy and therefore in the center of EU’s development agenda. Special attention has been paid to the Small and Medium Enterprises. Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises are socially and economically important, since they represent 99 % of all enterprises in the EU and provide around 65 million jobs and contribute to entrepreneurship and innovation. SMEs are, on the one hand, the economic “backbone” of the EU. On the other hand it is more difficult for them to do research on their own or to get the necessary scientific input for innovation. In order to strengthen the scientific and technological bases of the European industry and to encourage its international competitiveness it is indispensable to exchange on successful R&D policy approaches not only among Member States but also with states from the EU’s new neighbourhood and other countries that suceeded in having a competitive edge. Therefore EUROPEER SME fosters mutual learning, elaborates best practices and improves the impact of national and regional RTD support programmes to SMEs optimises the exchange of best practices by identifying conditions for transferability and developing transfer schemes diminishes overlap and strengthens the co-ordination of RTD policies directed to SMEs To foster mutual learning, to identify and evaluate best practices in the field of research policy making EUROPEER SME utilises the peer-review method. In order to improve the exchange of in-formation and to analyse the transferability of best practices, the partners pursue�a systematic approach. A continuous, dynamic and mutual learning process�on the one side provides insights into how existing RTD and innovation policies�can and should�be improved and made more effective. On the other side it�leads to a sustainable network which is self-supporting after the end of the project and remains open for new partners. The network will thereby help to strengthen the co-ordination of RTD policies directed to SMEs on a European scale. Due to the excellent networking and integration of EUROPEER SME and its partners, the findings and recommendations are to be spread not only among the participating partners but also published in relevant existing fora to make them applicable in other contexts and partner constellations. See more: Europeer SME  

Friday, 01 December 2006 | 4510 hits

32. Industrial Restructuring in the NIS: experience of and lessons from the new EU Member States [INDEUNIS]

Industrial Restructuring in the NIS: experience of and lessons from the new EU Member States

Sunday, 01 February 2009 | 4470 hits

33. Estonian Regional Innovation Strategy

Estonian Regional Innovation Strategy (ERIS) is a project financed from Regional Innovation Strategies in AC initiative of the European Commission. The project consortium consist of Tallinn Technology Park Development Foundation which acts as a coordinator and represents North-Estonia, Narva Business Advisory Services Foundation, which represents East-Estonia, University of Tartu Pärnu College, which represents West-Estonia, Institute of Baltic Studies from Estonia, Culminatum from Finland, Hamburg Innovation from Germany and Forfas from Ireland. It is expected that ERIS project will create an overall strategic framework and 3 regional action plans which will enable to improve support actions on regional and national level and to better coordinate developments in field of innovation which are already underway. In addition the project should help to develop on bottom-up basis the priorities for the next National Development Plan outlining the usage of structural funds resources in Estonia during the next programming period as well as the renewed version of national innovation strategy - Knowledge Based Estonia. The proposal has the following specific operational objectives: Building a regional consensus among main actors of innovation in target regions Raising public awareness both at regional and national level about the key role of innovation in regional economic development Identifying and analysing the needs of regional enterprises with special attention to the needs of SMEs Analysing the regional supply of innovation and innovation support Preparing a strategic framework and 3 regional innovation action plans Implementing regional innovation pilot actions Setting up a regional innovation monitoring and assessment system Promoting the interregional cooperation with the other regions in Europe The current project proposal covers 3 Estonian regions West-Estonia, North-Estonia and East- Estonia with total population of more than 1 000 000 inhabitants and with area of more than 30 000 square kilometres.

Sunday, 01 May 2005 | 4956 hits

34. Galilee Regional Innovation Strategy (Israel)

Galilee Regional Innovation Strategy (Israel)

Sunday, 01 February 2009 | 4430 hits

35. Creative Destruction Management in the Baltic Sea Region (with Praxis)

Creative Destruction Management in the Baltic Sea Region (with Praxis)

Sunday, 01 February 2009 | 4388 hits

36. Foresight pilots in ICT and biotech futures for Estonia

Foresight pilots in ICT and biotech futures for Estonia

Sunday, 01 February 2009 | 4301 hits

37. Strategies for regional sustainable development [REGIONET]

The promotion of regional and social cohesion as well as of environmental protection and sustainability are among the most important Community objectives. Project REGIONET will contribute knowledge that helps to better integrate environmental issues in regional development plans and management (also now needed for Structural Funds proposals) and to integrate environmental protection with economic development and social policy. The project explicitly addresses these issues by organising four workshops which will bring together different stakeholders, i.e. policy-makers, researchers, business/industry, and users/consumers. Specific Objectives The thematic network REGIONET has the following specific objectives: The improved integration of sustainability issues in the regional development plans put forward to the EU structural funds. An understanding of the relationship between the implementation of regional sustainable development and issues of regional and multi-level governance. An integrated framework for evaluating regional sustainable development (methods and tools) at the European, national and regional levels. The cross-fertilisation of sustainable development research and the establishment of regional partnerships. Outputs The outputs of REGIONET will be: Four workshops to bring together various stakeholders and elaborate on regional sustainable development. Edited books and other academic publications to contribute to the scientific discourse on regional sustainable development. 'Recommendations +' as a practical policy guide for regional sustainable development in Europe. A project website to provide information on upcoming events, network members and experts, information on other relevant projects, download reports. See more: Strategies for regional sustainable development  

Friday, 01 February 2002 | 4498 hits

38. Strategic Policy Intelligence Tools for Better Science and Technology Investment Strategies in Europe's Regions [RegStrat]

The RegStrat-project, which ran from 2007 until March 2009, was based on an ambitious integrating approach harnessing synergies from various knowledge stocks regarding strategic policy intelligence (SPI) tools, at different governance levels, in different policy and policy research fields, and in different actor communities of Europe's regional, national and sectoral innovation systems. Our main objective was to bring together, from research and practice, the dispersed knowledge regarding SPI tools such as Foresight, Technology Assessment, Evaluation, Regional Innovation Audits. As a stimulation of regional contributions to the Barcelona 3 % goal, RegStrat has been designed to generate positive impacts on increasing regional RTD investments, with a special view to the use of Structural Funds, i.e. through its impacts on the regional RTD governance and regional strategic knowledge base, interregional co-ordination and co-operation, and the interaction and complementarities with EU and national levels. The RegStrat project was a Co-ordination Action supported by the Regions of Knowledge 2-Program of the European Commission’s DG Research. The project consortium was composed of Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum (SEZ), for Baden-Württemberg, as co-ordinator and the following partners: IRER, the Regional Institute for Research of Lombardy, for Lombardia, Italy; Forfás, the National Policy Advisory Board for Enterprise, Trade, Science, Technology and Innovation, for Ireland; Fundecyt, the Foundation for the Development, for Extremadura, Spain; WUT, Wroclaw University of Technology, for Lower Silesia, Poland; and IBS, the Institute of Baltic Studies, for Tartu Region, Estonia. To ensure sustainability of RegStrat, the outcomes are adapted and implemented by SEZ in the EU-funded CReATE-project in the context of regional cluster development and interregional cooperation in the field of creative industries and ICT. See more at: Strategic Policy Intelligence Tools for Better Science and Technology Investment Strategies in Europe's Regions  

Thursday, 01 February 2007 | 4308 hits

39. Regional Innovation Policy Impact Assessment and Benchmarking [EURO-COOP]

The project EURO-COOP is a Specific Support Action of the 6th Framework Programme for Research and Development of the European Commission. It contributes to the ‘Research and Innovation’ priority, whose aims are to encourage a more innovation-friendly environment throughout the EU, stimulate technological innovation and set up innovative technology businesses. The EURO-COOP consortium is made up of three types of partner regions: Large metropolitan areas / capital regions (Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Manchester, Warsaw); Smaller, non-metropolitan or peripheral regions (Bratislava, Lublin, West Pannon, Tartu); Cross-border regions (CENTROPE, combining West Pannon Region, Bratislava, Vienna). The project centres on the needs and resources of the 9 participating regions, who need ‘knowledge for action’ and are mainly interested in the following objectives: Strengthening the process of sustainable regional innovation; Exchanging experiences with other European regions and, Developing a comprehensive regional policy impact assessment methodology. Cooperation between regional authorities (or innovation agencies) and research organisations means that sound knowledge can be applied in the partner regions. We go beyond the standardized approaches that are normally applied - quantitative indicators do not go far enough in the analysis of the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of innovation, and only provide limited support to regional innovation policy. In contrast to conventional approaches, EURO-COOP uses more qualitative and dynamic methods. Homepage: Regional Innovation Policy Impact Assessment and Benchmarking

Tuesday, 01 February 2005 | 4477 hits

40. Banská Bystrica Regional Innovation Strategy (Slovakia) [BABY RIS]

Banská Bystrica Regional Innovation Strategy (Slovakia)  

Sunday, 01 February 2009 | 4414 hits