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PROJECT PART FINANCED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION

The envisaged project aims at strengthening relationships between companies, administrations, innovation and development organisations and research institutions in the participating regions and finally fostering spatial integration by establishing and intensifying co-operation between these actors. There is a special focus on small and medium sized enterprises in the innovative services sector which is the most important economic sector in Europe and other western countries, since economic growth and regional development largely depend upon a prospering services sector.

There are existing disparities on the one hand in the regional relevance of services sector enterprises, but on the other hand also in the innovation potential of these enterprises. Regional disparities exist between rural and urban areas as well as technological disparities between candidate / accession countries and EU member states.

Services sector enterprises are in most cases SME (very often small and very small scaled enterprises) with a great potential to act flexibly and innovatively and to be the backbone of the regional innovation process. In many cases this potential remains unused in terms of transformation into sustainable development and economic growth, creation of new products, new employment and internationalisation possibilities. The major key-words addressing and intending to overcome this regional and structural problem are information and co-operation.

The proposed project addresses the shortfall in the collaboration potential of services sector SME by aiming at the elaboration of guidelines for regional and interregional innovation and for the support of these innovation processes by the meaningful adoption and application of a set of specific methodologies. The goal is to support the establishment of transnational, organisational and technological linkages between industries, SME, the regional innovation system, stakeholders and regional / national administrative bodies.