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BSR INNOREG
BSR InnoReg - Strengthening Innovation Governance in Baltic Non-metropolitan Regions
Background
The Baltic Sea region is recognized as an attractive and dynamic territorial cooperation area in Europe. The new EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea region aims to support balanced economic development across the area. With increasing global economic challenges and uncertainty, all regions in the area must react quicker and address global and environmental challenges by innovating more to improve competitiveness of the Baltic Sea region as a whole.
Regions outside the metropolises in the Baltic Sea area are committed to enhance innovation development and governance. At the same time, they are facing major challenges in securing availability of skilled work force, developing bridges between education, science and economy and supporting the creation and reform of small and medium-sized enterprises.
BSR InnoReg project addresses these challenges and aims to reinforce regional innovation governance and innovation support environments in the Baltic non-metropolitan regions.
BSR InnoReg activities
BSR InnoReg project focuses on strengthening strategic capacities of innovation and business development organizations through local workshops and transnational training on selected key themes such as global networking and financing tools.
The partner regions will jointly develop and test new innovation support instruments targeting at user-driven innovation, start-up financing and utilization of students in innovation processes. The results will be disseminated as a practical handbook for the use of innovation facilitators across the Baltic Sea region.
The project brings together regional and local decision-makers of the involved partner regions to discuss and agree on a Memorandum of Understanding on efficient innovation policies to guide economic development in the regions outside the metropolises in the Baltic Sea area.
Expected results
1. Memorandum of Understanding on Efficient Innovation Policies The MoU will include information on the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, identified strengths and shared key challenges of the BSR and policy recommendations. It will support the participating regions to elaborate their innovation policies according to the shared development view.
2. Handbook on practical innovation support instruments Innovation support instruments will be developed jointly, tested and documented under three main action fields: 1) Innovative enterprises and networking; 2) Financing instruments and start-up support; 3) Creative culture development.
3. Improved networks and strategic capacities of key innovation facilitators The project improves the capacities and international networks of decision-makers and innovation support organizations of the partner regions for identifying future challenges and managing of risks as well as for developing better innovation support services for enterprises.
Duration and budget
The project will be implemented during years 2009–2011 with co-financing by the EU Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007–2013.
Project total budget is 2,3 million euros.
BSR InnoReg partners
BSR InnoReg project gathers 19 partners representing regional and local authorities as well as business development organisations such as technology centres.
1. The Baltic Institute of Finland (Lead Partner)
2. Council of Tampere Region (Finland)
3. Hermia Business Development Ltd. (Finland)
4. Regional Council of South Ostrobothnia (Finland)
5. Seinäjoki Technology Centre (Finland)
6. Tartu City Government (Estonia)
7. Tartu Science Park Foundation (Estonia)
8. State Regional Development Agency (Latvia)
9. Investment and Development Agency of Latvia
10. Latvian Technological Center (Latvia)
11. Public institution "PVC" (Project Management Centre) (Lithuania)
12. Public institution "Technopolis" (Lithuania)
13. Panevezys City Municipality Adminstration (Lithuania)
14. Podlaska Regional Development Foundation (Poland)
15. ZAB - Brandenburg Economic Development Board (Germany)
16. Regional Planning Council Havelland-Fläming (Germany)
17. Innovation and Technology Center Bentwisch (Germany)
18. Hanseatic Institute for Entrepreneurship and Development at the University of Rostock (HIE-RO, Germany)
19. Administration of Leningrad Region (Russia)
Contact
Research Project Manager Algimantas Venckus, e-mail: algimantas(at)pvcentras.lt, tel: +370 37 320 740
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