Overview

PRO INNO Europe® is an initiative of Directorate General Enterprise and Industry which aims to become the focal point for innovation policy analysis and policy cooperation in Europe, with a view to learn from the best and contribute to the development of new and better innovation policies in Europe. The ultimate aim is to help European enterprises to innovate better and faster and to optimise and leverage complementarities between the various innovation support measures that exist throughout Europe (be it at regional, national and Community level). To achieve this, PRO INNO Europe® gives a prominent role to national and regional innovation policy and innovation support actors.

PRO INNO Europe® is composed of 5 building blocks that provide an integrated policy approach to develop new and better innovation policies. Together they provide analysis, benchmarking and development tools and activities to enhance the performance of innovation policy and support measures and to further cooperation between innovation policy makers across Europe. Each building block forms part of either the policy analysisor the policy cooperation pillars of the PRO INNO Europe® initiative:

1. Policy analysis:
   1. Benchmarking of innovation performance (INNO-Metrics)
   2. Analysing of major innovation trends (INNO-Policy Trendchart)
   3. Pooling of world-wide knowledge and contacts with regard to innovation policy and business innovation and facilitating a dialogue between public authorities, industry and academia on innovation policy (INNO-GRIPS)
2. Policy cooperation:
   1. Stimulating of transnational innovation policy cooperation (INNO-Nets)
   2. Providing incentives for joint innovation actions (INNO-Actions)

The main objectives of the “policy analysis” pillar are to measure and benchmark innovation performance; analyse innovation policy trends at national and regional level and bring together available worldwide information on innovation issues from policy, business and academia.

The policy cooperation pillar supports cooperation between innovation policy makers, thus contributing to the creation of a European Innovation Space. It serves to develop and test new innovation policy concepts in view of raising the effectiveness and more rapid implementation and uptake of innovation policy support throughout Europe.

All together, PRO INNO Europe® provides a platform for exchange of information, views, mutual learning and practical cooperation between innovation policy and innovation support actors with an interest in, and willingness to contribute to the improvement of the design, implementation and delivery of innovation policies and support measures at Member State and European level.