Policy Area Innovation publishes Strategy Guide, 2016 - 2020

September 15, 2016

Putting the EUSBSR into Practice – Policy Area Innovation launch Strategy Guide, 2016 – 2020

On behalf of policy area innovation, we are pleased to share with you the strategy guide, 2016 – 2020, which aims to put the EUSBSR Action Plan into practice within the policy area of innovation.

As defined by the Action Plan of the EUSBSR, policy area Innovation is essentially about intelligently combining the regional strengths, competences, research and development (R&D) and players of the entire Baltic Sea Region. The aim of this strategy guide is to provide policymakers and innovation actors with guidance and inspiration for how to best utilize the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region so as to effectively achieve EU and joint national goals.

This multi-annual strategy guide was developed over the course of a year by a task force consisting of the Baltic Development Forum (BDF), Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications of Estonia, the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation (DASTI), Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland and the Nordic Council of Ministers. It was done in close dialogue with all the member states throughout the Baltic Sea Region.

You can download the strategy guide here. We hope you will have a look through this brief guide and that it will serve as source of inspiration for your future work within the area of innovation.

For an elaboration on the development of the strategy guide and the central sources of input please see the two working papers titled:
1) Clustering and SME-development,
2) Transnational Digital Collaboration in the Baltic Sea Region (Including an annex on national profiles on digital policy for the Baltic Sea Region states).