Regional Innovation: Examples from Europe

Looking for ideas on how to promote collaboration related to regional innovation. You may want to contact the Innovating Regions in Europe (IRE) Network to learn about the many projects it has underway to help regions across Europe to work together in promoting innovation and economic development.

This is what we should be doing here in the U.S. This is the perfect thing for Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Indianapolis and other metro areas to work together on.

What is IRE? The Network of Innovating Regions in Europe (IRE) is the joint platform for collaboration and exchange of experiences in the development of regional innovation policies and schemes. The IRE Network is open to all European regions, including those in Central and Eastern Europe and Cyprus.

The network aims to enable regions to access new tools and schemes for innovation promotion and to create an inter-regional learning process. It also seeks to put innovation at the top of the regional policy agenda. It is open to all European regions that can demonstrate good practice in the promotion of innovation.

Since 1994, more than 100 European regions have received support from the European Commission for the formulation of regional innovation strategies through RITTS and RIS projects managed by Enterprise DG and Regional Policy DG respectively

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