Objectives:

• Contribute to the creation of a trans-national system of innovation
• Develop the role of development agencies in the innovation regional systems enforcement
• Diffuse and capitalize the lessons of the EU Regional Plans for Innovation (RPIAs)

 Activities:

• Creation and consolidation of the local and trans-national network;
• Knowledge sharing on themes relative to innovation;
• Implementation of staff exchange and training packages;
• Improvement and specialization of Development Agencies staff
• Pilot activities to test the innovative services for SMEs and their associations;
• Thematic workshops with the participation of policy makers and of the key actors of innovation;
• Elaboration of a Memorandum of Understanding / Central Agreement of the Development Agencies together with the Communitarian Policy makers participating in the program management 2013-2020;

Results:

new ICT tools for the management of innovation knowledge; adoption of the new training tools to enforce the management of knowledge and to develop the innovation process; constitution of regional networks for innovation and for innovation policies; create a trans-national network for the management of services and development policies

Type of service

• Management of multi-level work groups for an integrated approach to local problems
• Sharing methodological tools, experiences for the development of the entrepreneurship sector, an integrated approach to the process of territory restructuring and planning
• Activities capitalization and follow-up