INNO-Nets - INNO-Partnering Forum
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Rationale
Public innovation support is provided by different institutions at different levels as well as through different channels, including innovation and development agencies, chambers of commerce and cluster organisations. There seems to be a need for better cooperation among service providers which would lead to better quality of services provided and offer scope for higher efficiency. At the same time, new forms of innovation support emerge in many field s, such as in support of internationalisation of SMEs, innovation in services or enterprises with high growth potential, which challenge existing support services and channels.
The INNO-Partnering Forum shall provide an open platform where the different innovation support providers across Europe can meet and seek mutual learning and exchange of experience with a view to improving their efficiency in providing innovation support services to innovative SMEs. Furthermore, this initiative shall act as a catalyst for the modernisation of innovation support mechanisms in Europe with a view to identifying and testing new and promising trends in support to innovation. Mutual learning should also include reflexions on how to remove existing barriers for the use of “better practise” and how to adapt financial and budgetary rules to provide innovation support in a more tailored and customised manner , thus better addressing the needs of innovative SMEs across Europe.
The INNO-Partnering Forum will offer direct benefits for those who are actively participating in this initiative. Beyond that it will also facilitate cooperation with other innovation agencies and intermediaries that have a strong interest in learning from others. Mutual learning may help to better manage innovation programmes and support actions, thus contributing to the creation of stronger regional and national innovation systems in Europe.
To achieve these ambitious goals it is necessary to mobilise a sufficient number of innovation agencies and innovation service providers willing to share experience and to cooperate. This requires that the INNO -Partnering Forum offers clear added value to them, by providing services responding to their own needs and interests. The INNO-Partnering Forum will be user -driven and committed to deliver tangible results. For this reason, it will be launched through a call for proposal s that will mobilise those innovation agencies and innovation service providers who are strongest committed to work together in support of innovative SMEs in Europe.
This action shall be implemented through an open Call for proposals as an “INNO-Net” under the PRO INNO Europe® initiative.
Objectives
On the basis of the experience from the INNO-Learning Steering Group established under the PRO INNO Europe® initiative, it is proposed to further develop partnering between innovation support agencies in Europe by establishing an INNO-Partnering Forum. This new forum will serve as an operational platform for mutual learning and exchange of experience, with the objective to improve the overall quality and efficiency of public innovation support services in Europe. Experience shows that the identification of good practice is not sufficient to make real pr ogress in this respect. Mutual learning works best in an environment where ideas meet people that know and trust each other.
Besides that, the INNO-Partnering Forum shall identify the scope for better synergies between funding agencies. The needs for efficient innovation support are changing constantly, requiring new skills, service packages and organisational structures. The INNO -Partnering Forum will offer a platform where funding agencies can jointly develop new approaches to innovation support, by learning from each other and building joint teams to explore new ways of better service provision.
It is expected that the INNO-Partnering Forum will facilitate the “twinning” between innovation agencies and innovation service providers from different Member States, with the view to accelerating the take -up of the most advanced innovation support mechanisms which have proven their efficiency and impact. This will also help improving the impact of the Structural Funds and other public innovation support mechanisms, in particular in the new Member States.
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