HIGHER
This project aims to improve innovation in different European regions through both intelligent specialization and the promotion of public-private R&D projects.
Political instruments for high-innovation projects in European regions
The HIGHER project is looking to improve innovation in different European regions through both the intelligent specialisation and the promotion of public-private R&D projects. Its goal is to share and exchange good practices among different European regions to get innovation policies that promote collaborations between research centres and industry.
Each participant to analyse the program its region has deployed to promote research, technological development, and innovation in a strategy designed by the European Commission. The EC considers that to make Europe more competitive, it’s mandatory for the different territories to intensify their specialisation according to their competitive advantages, and thus, the different member states and their regions have elaborated research and innovation strategies that promote their specialisations and support the generation and development of innovative projects.
In this context, HIGHER analyses these strategies and programs made in these regions and finds the best practices and performances that have really helped to strengthen the competitiveness of their business fabric and the regional economic development. The different regions will be able to exchange good practices to improve the collaboration science-industry and the inversions of private capital on R&D projects and implement them in their policies.
Participants
The project is led by the UAB Research Park, and the following centres, regions, and institutions have taken part in it: the Marche and Abruzzo Regions in Italy; Nordregio in Sweden; the INTELI Innovation Centre in Portugal; the Lithuania Innovation Centre; the Association of Urban Municipalities of Slovenia; the Central Macedonia region in Greece; and the Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough Enterprise Partnership in the United Kingdom.
The role of the UAB Research Park
The UAB Research Park has coordinated the project and its communications.
Period
Start date: April 1st, 2016
End date: September 31st, 2020
Funding
The project has been funded with 1.8 million euros by the Interreg Europe program created by the European Commission.
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