INKREASE

INKREASE - Innovation and Knowledge for REgional Actions and Systems - aims at improving innovation delivery capacity of participating regions. The project's main goal is to mainstream, into the different regional strategies of partners, policies and tools to increase the capacities of the various innovation ecosystems, reinforce the collaboration between research and business communities and exploit the economic valorization processes of research results. INKREASE learning process tackles aspects related to:

• Management of structured innovation networks and clusters;
• Appropriate tools and mechanisms to leverage business investments in research and innovation;
• New and more effective governance models;
• Sector specific needs.

INKREASE has a clear focus on the challenges emerging from RIS3 and the identification and development of new value chains to support research-enterprise cooperation. Good practices on governance models, industry-science relations management schemes, business clustering and networking experiences are taken as inspiration for the regional Action Plans. UPDATE : The project entered its "Phase 2" in April 2019 After 3 years of sharing experiences, good practices, policies and visits of European Innovation Ecosystems. Partners have presented their Regional Action Plans during the Mid-Term Conference in Bologna in March 2019. Those plans have been inspired by partners good practices and designed to fit regional needs and ambitions. They will be implemented the next 2 years, until the end of the project.