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Smart Specialisation Strategy

In this policy brief, you will learn from practices implemented in different regional institutional contexts such as transformative policy changes on regional policy challenges ranging from the Entrepreneurial Discovery Process to S3 Monitoring.

Boosting entrepreneurship in rural areas

Boosting entrepreneurship in rural areas opens new opportunities and markets. In this policy brief, you'll discover how rural SMEs show great potential as a source of economic growth and innovation.

University-industry collaboration

Find out in this policy brief why university-industry collaboration is a key component of the regional innovation policy-mix. Successful exploitation of research and development results is fundamental for regional competitiveness.

Industry 4.0

Explore six policy recommendations using experience from Interreg Europe projects dealing with Industry 4.0 to offer regions relevant lessons to enrich their transformative efforts.

Circular economy business models in the EU

Discover the challenges and solutions that policymakers face in implementing circular economy business models. This policy brief includes recommendations on how to speed up the development of these models.

Policy challenges in research and innovation infrastructure

The European research and innovation infrastructure ecosystem comprised numerous facilities and stakeholders operating at the leading edge of scientific discoveries. The experience of Interreg Europe projects tackling research and innovation infrastructure can serve as inspiration to regions across Europe.

Public-private startup accelerators in regional business support ecosystems

This policy brief discusses public-private partnership-based accelerator models being set up as a response to the challenge of identifying and supporting innovative startups.

Towards synergies between S3P-Industry and Interreg Europe projects

This policy brief identifies potential complementarities and synergies between partnerships of the Smart Specialisation Thematic Platform for Industrial Modernisation (S3P-Industry) and Interreg Europe projects.

The ins and outs of the Vanguard Initiative

The Vanguard Initiative seeks to support interregional cooperation notably through industrial clusters and innovation ecosystems creating new competitive advantages for Europe, member states, and regions.

Digital transformation and SMEs

This policy brief is an introduction to the policy field of digitalisation and digital transformation.

The Regional Ecosystem Scoreboard methodology

The regional ecosystem scoreboard is a statistical tool, designed for policy-makers responsible for regional, industrial, innovation, and cluster policies. It helps to identify bottlenecks of the regional eco-system that may hold back the overall performance of the regional economy.