With its assistance programme EFRE 2000-2006, the Europena Commission supports innovative measures in three strategic project areas. The measures of the regional programme for saxony carried out in 2002 to 2004 dealt with these strategic areas in the form of five individual projects. The project InnoDreiländereck is research in the first project area: Regional Economies Based on Knowledge and Technology Innovation.
Starting with a comprehensive analysis of the innovation potential available in the area of Oberlausitz-Niederschlesien among enterprises and universities, a number of possible measures was identified in which the innovative capacity of the economy and its competitiveness could be improved by implementing concrete action and new projects. The project used the instrument STRINNOP (strengthening the regional innovation profile) – with the help of which an innovation profile can be created using ten investigation areas and numerous single indicators – to describe the regional innovation landscape, to drive policy recommendations and for the subsequent evaluation of implementation success. This approach has already been used twelve other European regions to help develop their innovation strategies.
Besold, J. et al (2005): Die Region Oberlausitz-Niederschlesien - Innovationspotenziale und Perspektiven im Dreiländereck, ifo Dresden Studie 38, Munich/Dresden.
Schmalholz, H. (2005): Innovationspotenziale im sächsischen Dreiländereck gezielt mobilisieren, in: ifo Dresden berichtet 02/2005, p. 33-37 (Download, PDF, 98 KB).
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