Overview
The INNO-Learning Platform ran from late 2006 until January 2010 and has focused on improving the effectiveness of innovation support in Europe by stimulating more and better transnational cooperation among innovation agencies across Member States and regions and policy learning among the actors involved.
In order to effectively exploit Europe's innovation potential, the INNO-Learning Platform explored the added value of targeted forms of transnational cooperation between innovation support actors from different Member States and regions. As such, the INNO-Learning Platform also helped to overcome the problems faced by individual public funding agencies that support innovation, notably through the creation of structuring effects across Europe between authorities and agencies working in the field of innovation support. To this end, the INNO-Learning Platform also identified and exchanged successful practices, thus fostering a more receptive culture among innovation support providers towards transnational innovation cooperation.
The INNO-Learning Platform functioned as an 'incubator' for innovation support ideas and partnerships, exploring the scope for transnational cooperation in the field of innovation. Its experimental nature and aim to provide ideas for the formulation of possible forms of transnational innovation policy cooperation initiatives to be launched by the European Commission, were instrumental in the conceiving of the 2009-2012 INNO-Nets and INNO-Actions. To this end, the INNO-Learning Platform also carried out ex ante impact assessments for future areas of joint European transnational innovation cooperation activities, while also examining the interest of stakeholders in participating in these activities.
The INNO-Learning Platform consisted of the INNO-Learning Platform Consortium, the INNO-Learning Steering Group and was assisted by several of exploratory teams and thematic task forces for its analytical activities and report development.
As main outputs of the INNO-Leaning Platform, the following deliverables can be highlighted:
- Annual Policy Cooperation and Learning Reports
- A Handbook on how to build and manage transnational innovation policy cooperation projects
- Pilot exercises with regard to peer reviewing of support measures managed by innovation agencies
- Pilot exercises with regard to twinning on good practices between innovation agencies
- Assessing and measuring performance and impacts stemming from transnational innovation policy cooperation projects
- Testing of transnational innovation policy cooperation projects on subsidiarity and effectiveness grounds
