Innovation governance and smart specialisation strategies

Important results from the project

support complex projects / processes in regional areas of strength (Smart Specialisation Areas) and innovation. One condition was that the projects/processes must be of such a nature that any kind of public support is considered necessary for the process to start and / or kept going until other funding can be secured. The goal of the project was to develop scalable service tools (services) methods for the development and management of business-driven innovation projects have been used by the actors with responsibility for regional development, and other relevant regional actors.

Expected long term effects

Methods of managing and developing business-driven innovation projects have been developed, tested, evaluated and packaged. The basis for this has been business-driven, open innovation lab Examples of IT-based tool,have been analyzed and requirements set by testing existing idea management and prototyping of additional system support. Methods, Models / processes and tools have begun to be used by the operators with responsibility for regional development, and other relevant regional actors and private operators

Approach and implementation

The project has been implemented in three sub-projects that are logically linked to the overall innovation process. These are coordinated by the Region of Östergötland as project owner 1. Idea generation and development of multi-actor cooperation collaboration between the development environment for green industries, Vreta Kluster and Crearum 2. Development and management of industry-driven innovation projects. collaboration between Norrköping Science Park and GaiaLab 3. System support for regional innovation process driven by Region Östergötland and Effektfabriken