The Regional Innovation Strategy (RIS) for Mazovia is a document which reflects the quadruple helix approach in the Mazovia region. The first Regional Innovation Strategy for Mazovia (RIS Mazovia) was adopted in 2008. Its main aim was to create an innovation support system by, inter alia, building and maintaining cooperation networks and creating stable tools for supporting innovative activities. On the European level, the strategic concept for innovation development in the 2014–2020 programming period is outlined in the EU economic strategy – “Europe 2020” and a flagship initiative – “Innovation Union”. In both cases one of the elements identified as essential is the need for regions to undertake direct actions supporting initiatives favourable to creating a business environment and stimulating companies’ innovativeness which should lead to increasing their competetitiveness as well as that of the region. In response to such indications on the European level, in 2015 the updated version of RIS Mazovia was prepared. The Regional Innovation Strategy for Mazovia 2020, elaborated in accordance with the European Commission’s guidelines, was updated to include strategies for smart specialisation which meant enhancing the role of stakeholders in programming, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.

The objective of the instrument is to support the capacity of SMEs to grow in regional, national and international markets and to increase their innovation and productivity. The part of this instrument that could be specifically selected for this project is related to the support for the digitalisation of SMEs, where SMEs are supported to implement different novel solutions to increase their productivity and competitiveness. The first call for proposals of the financial measure “Industry digitalisation“ was launched recently.

It would be important to incorporate the aspect of resilience into the policy instrument in order to provide the extra support to the regions, which are experiencing major closures and structural changes. Thus, international cooperation and exchange of good practices is very useful in order to learn from other regions and get the knowledge how this policy instrument can be improved.

The OP should substantially contribute to the proposed shift in the growth model of the Greek economy from non-tradeable into tradeable sectors, and cluster development of innovative and out turned sectors with a sustainable competitive advantage. The pivotal strategic objective is to enhance the competitiveness and extroversion of enterprises, to facilitate transition to quality entrepreneurship with innovation and the growth of domestic added value as the cutting edge.The goal is to improve the first priority "Enhancing entrepreneurship with sectorial priorities" increase research potential and private investments in research and development, promote innovation and outturn of SMEs, particularly in textile and clothing sector.The program itself support development of business models, improvement of development of business processes, value chains, optimisation of innovation potentials of SMEs. The specific topic of transfer of business is not tackled directly by the programme. Existing support measures do not support the transfer of business and its specific questions and development challenges of SMEs facing with transfer of business. Therefore existing SME support measures shall be upgraded and develop approaches that can be used to foster the transfer of business and at the same time improve the cooperation between support organisations and SMEs in their endeavours to pay specific attention to the needs of SMEs in the process or in the preparation phase for transfer of business.

The Programme aims to boost economic growth in the Valencia region and contribute to achieving the Europe 2020 targets for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. It should create jobs and boost productivity, particularly in SMEs. Especially, the T.O.3 SMEs Competitiveness. The Valencian economy and society have registered important advanc so that the region has become part of the more developed regions of Spain. However, despite the favorable trajectory in terms of production and employment registered during the last expansive phase, the negative effects of the current crisis have been reflected in its economic and productive model, highlighting structural failures that they require a strategic intervention and a new socio-economic paradigm. In this way, the objective of the improvement required, is to concentrate resources in those sectors of greater value added for the Region as the Footwear sector, to consolidate their development model around smart growth, enhancing those activities where the region has a specialization and a higher qualification accentuated, while taking into account the territory as a factor of competitiveness.