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Focus Knowledge Region
The challenges posed by the knowledge society are the same for all CENTROPE partners: knowledge and its efficient utilisation become a key competitive factor. A vital task of economic and employment policies today lies in the safeguarding of a form of location development that is more and more geared towards research and innovation. The emerging common research and education space of the EU plays its part here as well, since it entails an increasingly tough competition for research funding, top-level scientists and students.
What would therefore seem more logical than shaping the transition to a knowledge-based economy together, especially since cross-border cooperation can become a catalyst for the influx of scientists, students, R&D-oriented enterprises and capital from all over the world? Cooperation ventures in the fields of research and education, strategic alliances between universities, improved possibilities of know-how transfer between research and industry as well as the promotion of entrepreneurial innovation contribute directly to the emergence of technology and research clusters and hence further the potential of economic success of the Central European Region.
A series of transnational events and network meetings will address key-players dealing in CENTROPE’s main fields of knowledge to identify enablers or barriers for cooperation and discuss next steps to be taken to interlink regional activities. This implies the linkage of academic activities as well as the help to apply existing technology know-how in industry. Euroregions like Öresund or the Eindhoven-Leuven-Aachen Triangle may act as best practice models.
CENTROPE Capacity identified 5 major topics:
1. Innovation support and research cooperation in CENTROPE
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