Eurada News nº387 - April 2019 European Cluster Policy: Using clusters to support European SMEs The EU Cluster Portal provides tools and information on key European initiatives, actions and events for clusters and their SMEs with the aim of creating more world-class clusters across the EU. Stay up to date in European Cluster policy and find [...]
Eurada News nº387 - April 2019 20th Anniversary of ADR Nord-Est On the 16th April, the Nord-Est Regional Development Agency celebrated the 20th anniversary of its foundation. The balance of the 20 years of activity has proven to be encouraging: support for the implementation of more than 2300 projects by regional actors, worth € 1.8 billion; [...]
Eurada News nº387 - April 2019 Opportunity to take part in H2020 programme There is a specific call for proposals in H2020 for the agencies that support innovation in companies. The INNOSUP programme supports the peer learning agencies in a call specifically indicated to address common challenges. It is a very flexible call made up of [...]
Eurada News nº387 - April 2019 The Regional Engine of Public Sector Innovation Most intermediary organisations such as RDAs are pushing the mantra of these days “innovate or die” in their support provision of support services to entrepreneurs and enterprises. But what about innovation within these organisations? Are they taking their own medicine or they prefer [...]
Eurada News nº387 - April 2019 Responsible Research & Innovation and RDAs Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is an umbrella term which should be understood by development agencies and their practitioners. For almost a decade, the RRI approach to research and innovation policy has gathered traction and it is now a cross cutting issue in the [...]
Eurada News nº386 - March 2019 Regiostars and European Entrepreneurial Region Awards Since 2008, the European Commission hands out annual REGIOSTARS awards to EU-funded projects which demonstrate excellence and new approaches in regional development. With the goal of inspiring other regions and project managers across Europe, participating projects are in the spotlight of communication activities at [...]
Eurada News nº386 - March 2019 Speakers wanted for the WIRE Conference Apply before March 15th to promote the good practices from your agency in the 10th Week of Innovative Regions in Europe (WIRE), co-organised by the RDA Nord Est and DG Research of the European Commission on 26 – 28th of June 2019, in Iasi, [...]
Eurada News nº386 - March 2019 Fernando Casas appointed new Director-General of IDEA Casas replaces Julio Samuel Coca Blanes as the Director-General of the Innovation and Development Agency of Andalusia (Spain) Fernando Casas Pascual has been appointed new Director-General of the Andalusian Agency for Innovation and Development IDEA of the Government of Andalusia (Spain). He replaced [...]
Eurada News nº386 - March 2019 European Innovation Council Pilot Today's successful, high-growth innovative enterprises often rely on new business models and technologies emerging at the intersection between sectors and disciplines. The European Innovation Council (EIC) pilot supports innovators developing breakthrough innovations with the potential to create new markets and boost jobs, growth and prosperity in [...]
Eurada News nº386 - March 2019 New Regulation on Smart Specialisation Nowadays, we can say that Smart Specialisation policy experience is positively valued across EU countries and regions so far, but there are some aspects that need to be examined and approached.Regarding to the design and implementation of the RIS3, human capacity is needed, being the [...]