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INNOVATE !
Such is the « buzzword » of
the upcoming 2007-2013 programming period of regional policy
which opens on the 1 January next. There are now less than three
months left for the Regions to reflect on the issue of “how
to innovate as effectively as possible?”
The
Commission has offered new ways to help them in this task, for
example the communication of 13 September on European innovation
strategy (Putting knowledge into practice: a broad-based innovation
strategy for the EU) as well as the communication by the Directorate
General for Competition, of regulations R&D and Innovation
and of the specific draft innovation regulation which is going
to outline the kind of aid that regional policy will be in a
position to finance for the period 2007-2013.
No
doubt that these elements bring about an extra perspective in
relation to the generalised guidelines which figure in the community
strategic guidelines which will be, without passion, adopted
in October 2006. But the game margins stay above all, it is
up to the regional partners to invent new ways of innovation
governance between the classic interventions in favour of industrial
fabric (economic aid), the traditional interventions in favour
of the research sector and the accompanying structures of innovation.
Philippe
Cichowlaz
Director
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34th
CPMR GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 26-27 OCTOBER 2006
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by Enrico Mayrhofer
On 25, 26 and 27 October 2006, the region of Murcia will host
the next CPMR General Assembly. The peripheral maritime regions
of Europe will meet, for the 34th time, to define their goals
for the year to come and to look back on 2006...
by Jean Didier Hache
The
conference “Energy for the Periphery”, which takes
place on 5/6 October 2006 in Pamplona at the invitation of the
Regional Government of Navarre, marks the emergence of the CPMR
in the highly strategic domain of EU Energy Policy...
by Lejla Becirovic
The
“OPEN DAYS, European Week of Regions and Cities 2006”,
is a major event in the EU’s regional calendar. It will
take place from 9 to 12 October 2006 in Brussels under the headline
“Investing in Europe Regions and Cities – Public and
Private Partners for growth and jobs...
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SEA
TECH WEEK -16-19 OCTOBER 2006, BREST (F)
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Sea
Tech Week offers a program of conferences, symposia and workshops
which bring together the top specialists in the world from different
maritime research disciplines. This event facilitates interaction
between subject areas – representation of ocean depths,
sea rescue, corrosion, EU maritime policy, AUVs, etc. –
which will be tackled during the week...
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