Since 2016 the Interreg Baltic Sea Region projects EmpInno and EmpInno Monitor S...

Design more efficient innovation policy instruments with better RIS3 monitoring

Where: Via Zoom (originally in Riga/Latvia)    

Monitoring of EU-funded projects is always double-sided. Somebody monitors projects to obtain data, and somebody delivers data through monitoring. These two sides do not necessarily see the coin from...

Activities related to updating the Regional Innovation Strategy are currently being implemented in the Lubelskie Voivodeship. These activities are part of the evaluation research entitled "Strategic ...

The effectiveness of the monitoring activities of regional innovation strategies largely depends on the access to information and the quality of this information. Information is provided, among other...

Suppose you want to monitor your region’s economic changes and identify specific growth areas - without meeting directly with stakeholders, like the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic demands. In that cas...

On November 26, 2020 the fourth edition of Innovation Forums as part of the EmpInno Monitor S3 project took place in the Lublin Conference Center. This time, during the conference, interesting soluti...

Given the need to include more qualitative information in the RIS3 monitoring system in the South Savo region, the South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences Xamk worked out a webropol-surv...

Leader of Innovations 2020 were chosen via online voting. Among the winners are micro, small and medium-sized enterprises. All the awarded ar...

EmpInno Monitor S3 partner in Latvia – Riga Planning Region - have begun to elaborate the new regional development planning document – the Regional Development Program 2021-2027. The Regional Develop...

On 20th of October 2020 during The VII National Scientific Conference "Innovations in practice" EmpInno Monitor S3 project partner Malgozata Brodzicka was talking about the EmpInno project. The main ...

Despite grand challenges and uncertainties such as COVID-19 and discussions in the “big politics” (e.g. “Next Generation EU”, Multiannual Financial Framework, Rule of Law, Brexit…) the EmpInno Monitor S3 partners continue with their work towards a more innovative, Smarter Europe.

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Danish Design Centre is Denmark’s national design centre that promotes the use of design in p...

In Finnish innovation system regional authorities, i.e. regional councils, are responsible for building regional innovation strategies. The Regional Council of...

Are you working in the field of regional planning, business development and RIS3?
Do you need to monitor ongoing ...

EmpInno Monitor S3 lead partner Rostock Business and Technology Development GmbH hosted the 1st project meeting in Rostock, Germany, 15-17 October 2019.

SPARK Demo is the business support structure for entrepreneurship in South Estonia, created in 2016 under the leadership of Tartu Science Park and...

South Savo Finland S3 strategy owner comment:

EmpInno Monitor S3 project partner Tartu City Government will be entering the implementation phase of the Interreg project RELOS3

The EmpInno project has issued two sets of recommendations, one for innovation intermediaries and one for authorities responsible for smart specialisation strategies. Based on the project experiences and exchange, the partnership provides hands-on guidance and ...

On 13 April 2019, the Marshal's Office of the Lubelskie Voivodeship organised the 3rd Innovation Forum entitled “Lubelskie Region – healthy land of food and forests” in Lublin, Poland. Implemented under the EmpInno project, entrepreneurs, researchers and guests from c...

Region Gävleborg shared their Good Practice of enhanced use of reference groups for stakeholder governance in innovation processes with the EmpInno partners.The region built the first Electric Road System (ERS) in the world on a public highway for heavy transport 2016 (E16 outside Sandviken). Bui...

A full year of transnational exchange, local activities, developing outputs and preparing the final conference (6^th/7^th March 2019) lies behind us. Now it is time to rest, spend time with your beloved ones and let innovation policies and smart specialisation strategies make ...

On the 14-15 November 2018, the Marshal Office of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship organised a delegation trip for EmpInno partners and stakeholders to the Kujawsko Pomorskie Region, Poland. The agenda provided a combination of several visits to innovative companies...

On 28th/29th August 2018 the EmpInno partner Tartu Science Park organized together with the Tartu Biotechnology Park an R+D transfer workshop for biotechnology companies. The overarching topics were: "How to support and fund the process from a discovery to a bio-busin...

The EmpInno partner Riga Planning Region has finalised and set-up its “interactive RIS3 analytical online platform”. It comprises and demonstrates data and other information that relate to the implementation of the Latvian smart specialization strategy. Moreover, the platform tool provides for be...

Offshore wind study-visit delegates from the Satakunta region in Finland and from Rostock in Germany had a tight schedule as they were welcomed in Esbjerg by Offshoreenergy.dk end May 2018. The study visit was organized as part of the Interreg Baltic Sea Region progra...

Idea cube, customer journey map and industry map were some of the tools presented for 12 start-ups in Kaunas on June 13^th when they took part in an interactive workshop on designing their way to business development. Through the six hours workshop, walls and tables were gradually cover...

On the 12-13 June 2018, the Kaunas Science and Technology Park (Kaunas STP) hosted the 8^th meeting of the EmpInno project in Kaunas, Lithuania. All EmpInno partners from across the Baltic Sea Region took the chance to enhance their knowledge about implementati...

In the first half of 2018, the EmpInno partner Regional Council of South Ostrobothnia together with XPort Finland – a business development company specialising on consulting services for export activities – launched a series of development clinics for SMEs all over the region. Main goal of...

The 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals reflect in many ways a circular economy and circular thinking. But how is it possible to combine these two domains? How can the Sustainable Development Goals be the direct starting point for the transition to a circular economy? 

In Kolding, Denm...

On 13th April 2018, the Marshal Office of the Lubelskie Voivodeship organised a regional INNOVATION FORUM with the title “Healthy Food in Regional Quality of Life”. The meeting was conducted by the Lublin Centre for Research on Innovativeness as part of the EmpInno pr...

On 20^th March 2018, Kaunas Science and Technology Park (Kaunas STP) launched the event “Breakfast of Innovators” in Kaunas, Lithuania, to support the exchange and cooperation between innovation actors, SMEs, start-ups and researchers. The concept is based on a good practice from Finlan...

On the 20-21 February 2018, the Tartu Science Park and the Tartu City Government organised the 7th meeting of the EmpInno project in Tartu, Estonia. All EmpInno partners from across the Baltic Sea Region were invited to the SPARK Demo Center to exchange their experiences on implementing ...

On 28^th February 2018 the South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences (XAMK) Small Business Center of Mikkeli, Finland, and their associated partner Mikkeli Development Miksei Ltd invited local stakeholders to share experiences and progress on the implementation of RIS3 within...

On 15th November 2017 during the 10th Lublin Fair for Energetics ENERGETICS 2017 (Poland) an international conference "Energy independence at the local level" was held in Lublin. The conference was organised by the Foundatio...

Late December 2017 South Denmark European Office (SDEO) and TEK Innovation at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) organised two workshops to strengthen the cooperation between researchers and companies within the bus...

To become more knowledgeable on the Region of South Denmark’s smart specialisation area Sustainable Energy, the South Denmark European Office (SDEO) facilitated the establishment of the Sustainable Energy Forum South Denmark. The forum had its kick-off in December 2017 at a meeting in the Region’...

The 6^th EmpInno meeting on RIS3 empowerment for innovation and targeted growth took place in Lublin from 13-15^th Nov...

How can we find innovative solutions to a complex problem? And how can companies produce the right product or service making them more competitive? When there are multiple solutions and directions a ‘one size fits all’-way of thinking doesn’t exist – in this case design-thinking and design-dri...

What are the smart specialisations of Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship? Where can I find funds for innovative projects? How to bring industry and science together? Answers on these questions as well as other practical information were available for participants of informa...

A first workshop on promoting research and development cooperation of enterprises with universities in the field of renewable energy and energy efficiency was organised at the headquarters of the Foundation for Lubelskie Development in Lublin on August 24^th 2017. It was attended by rep...

The first three transnational delegation trips have been successfully conducted by the EmpInno partners. One aim of the project is to create opportunities for innovation actors to cooperate in RIS3-priorities (or sectors), in which the competencies of the partner regions overlap.

Consequ...

How to create value by using “design as method”, how this spurs innovation and how the vibrant epicentre of the Danish design ecosystem in Kolding unfolds, was in the centre of the fifth project meeting in the last days of May. The cluster organisation D2i - Design to...

ICT meets Manufacturing event organised in Tartu - Tartu City Government organised a RIS3 information event "Manufacturing solutions today and tomorrow“ together with the Estonian ICT cluster and seven ICT companies in its regional RIS3 priorities of “ICT” and “enhancement of resources” on 18th ...

The EmpInno project organised the session “Empowering for innovation and growth in cities and regions” at the 21st International Conference on Innovation “Baltic Dynamics 2016 – Innovation and Technology Convergence Strategy for Smart Growth" on 15th September 2016 in Riga, Latvia. Among others, ...

Riga in Latvia was the destination for the 16 project partners of the EmpInno project to meet for the third time on 13th-15th September 2016. It was discussed how project partners could better increase their organisational capacity to work with the RIS3 and make this available for the whole organ...

Kiel Business Development Agency organised the information event "Added value - Health - Innovation Management" together with the cluster management organisation Life Science Nord for local stakeholders in its regional priority “life sciences” on 6th September. Almost 40 participants, half of the...

Colleagues from the Small Business Center of the Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences, located in the Finnish region of South-Savo, hosted the second project meeting from 13th-14th June 2016. Whereas the Nordic summer sun perfectly illuminated some of the regional priorities chosen in the smart...

This May 26, 2016, the Kaunas Science and Technology Park organized an informational event titled “Future in IT: Business, Science and Venture Capital“ to promote its national RIS3 strategy and action plan in the priority area of transport, logistics and information and communication technologies...