Regional economic development & entrepreneurship

The goal of the study was to realise a strategic diagnosis, which constituted the part dedicated to outermost regions in the national diagnosis of the Partnership Contract for 2014-2020. This diagnosis highlighted the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities the French outermost regions were facing. The study had one strategic and one operational objective. The strategic objective…

The study analysed the possibilities of successfully linking the Estonian national innovation system and high added value foreign investments. The first part of the study reviewed the examples in other countries to focus on the best international practices, also it positioned Estonia’s competitiveness, the second part highlighted the country’s prerequisites for more efficiently engaging higher…

The specific objectives of this assignment were: • provide evidence and policy lessons to European decision-makers on the effectiveness of innovation policies over broadly the last ten years, by linking the respective databases of the Erawatch/TrendChart platform, of the Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS) (previously the European Innovation Scoreboard) and – to the extent possible –…

In 2007, the Regional Council of Guadeloupe adopted an Economic development regional scheme (SRDE), based on six priorities. Between 2007 and 2013, the regional economic and social context greatly changed, with the local social crisis of 2009 and the world economic and financial crisis of 2010-2011. In the same period, the regional authorities adopted a…

Mayotte is in France, in an atypical situation: Since the 31st of March 2011, Mayotte is the 101th French department and it has no experience in the European funds. However, because it became part of the outermost regions for the 2014-2020 programming period, Mayotte can aspire to these funds. But it had to globally join…

Technopolis updated the Nantes Region (Pays de la Loire) observatory of research, which is a tool for dialogue between the various actors of research. It allows analyses in a dynamic way the regional system of research, and comparative analysis of the research laboratories’ and institutes’ activities. It is also a tool for regional decision-makers.

The OECD-NIS in collaboration with DG Regio and OECD Member Countries and their regions formed a working group that explored methods to analyse and monitor smart specialisation developments. This led to the OECD publication Innovation-driven Growth in Regions: the Role of Smart Specialisation (2013) to which we contributed. The region of Flanders as one of…

The Interreg IVC ECREIN+ project was launched in January 2010 and lasted three years. The project gathered 11 partners, from 10 EU countries: regional authorities, regional chambers of commerce and the Assembly of European Regions (AER). The project aimed to facilitate exchange of good practices in the field of eco-innovation support policies at the regional…