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From 23rd to 27th January visits and interviews in AREA Science Park and in Friuli Venezia Giulia 

Innovation Management: European experts meet in FVG


20.01.2012 -

A food plain for Eastern Slovenia, an agreement to create a transnational biotechnologies cluster in Central Hungary and the implementation of a knowledge transfer system (mentoring) in the mechatronics sector (putting together mechanics, electronics and information technology) for Higher Silesia. These are the goals for the ACCESS Project (Accelerating Regional Competitiveness and Sector-based Excellence through Innovation Management Tools and Techniques), a 3-year EU-funded programme involving 11 partners, among which 2 Italian institutions: AREA Science Park of Trieste and the Emilia Romagna CNA Regional Office (Confederation of Crafts and SMEs).

 

ACCESS was conceived with the objective to increase competitiveness and excellence in specific fields in the involved territories, fostering direct access to innovation management tools and techniques in 3 key sectors (agro-food industry, biotechnologies and mechatronics). To achieve their goals, the project partners have devised a systematic methodology, addressed to identification, development and implementation of innovation strategies, currently going through its testing phase. The methodology establishes in full detail how to implement peer-reviews to identify actors, policies and tools for innovation, using interviews with stakeholders as one of the available resources.

 

The testing phase, after two sessions held in Budapest and Prague with the participation of experts from AREA Science Park and CBM (the Regional Cluster in Biomedicine), both based in Trieste, arrives to Friuli Venezia Giulia (from 23rd to 27th January) with a delegation of experts from Hungary and the Czech Republic, participating in visits and interviews with the most significant actors of the local innovation system.

 

Among these: professors and researchers from the Universities of Trieste and Udine, officers working for the most important regional innovation support institutions (among which AREA Science Park, the Chamber of Commerce of Trieste, Friulia, etc.), directors of international research centres (CBM, ICGEB, etc.), journalists and experts in science communication, representatives of the most significant regional enterprises operating in the biotechnologies sector, representatives of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Regional Government (Directorate for Education, University, Research, Families, Associations and Cooperation and Directorate for Productive Activities).

 

At the end of the week, the delegation of experts will be able to draft a plan, to become a point of reference for the devising of future regional innovation policies. AREA Science Park, together with CBM, performs a crucial function as concerns biotechnology-specific activities.

 

The partners of ACCESS: South Transdanubian Regional Innovation Agency Non-for-profit Ltd. (H), AREA Science Park (I), Theodore Puskas Foundation (H), CATT Innovation Management Ltd. (A), Clusterland Upper Austria Ltd. (A), European Development Agency (CZ), Emilia Romagna CNA Regional Office (Confederation of Crafts and SMEs) (I), Regional Development Agency of Bielsko Biala (PL), Slovak Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Prešov Regional Chamber (SK), Pomurje Technology Park Ltd. (SLO), Virtual Dimension Center (D).

 

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