Europe INNOVA - Partnerships for better innovation support

The final event of the Sectoral Innovation Watch brought together more than 80 participants from the innovation support community. The event aimed to synthesise the project’s analyses of the dynamics and futures of nine industrial sectors. It also considered how horizontal themes such as eco-innovation, service innovation and also national specialisation in cluster-driven service innovation blur the sectoral boundaries in value chains. ...

On the 25th of January, the workshop 'Service Innovation, Organisational Innovation and Value Chain: What Role for Policy Making' was organised by the Sectoral Innovation Watch. The workshop brought together over 80 experts to discuss the transformative effects of organisational and service innovations on industrial value and supply chains. ...

This workshop was organised by the Sectoral Innovation Watch (SIW), in Brussels, on the 13 January 2011. It brought together 25 experts to discuss issues related to the use of the ‘gazelle’ phenomenon to stimulate innovation in industry and growth in the economy. Four working sessions produced new insights into the nature of gazelles, their importance for innovation policy and ways to leverage their growth. ...

Workshop on organisational innovation and value chain, 25 January 2011 ...

Workshop on gazelles at 13th January 2011. ...

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Link to input papers and presentations of the joint SIW ECO workshop, organised in Brussels, Belgium on 11-12 May 2010 ...

The joint workshop of the Europe INNOVA projects Sector Innovation Watch (SIW) and European Cluster Observatory (ECO), that took place in Brussels on 11/12 May, saw rich discussions among a high number of innovation researchers and practitioners. The SIW put the results of its studying innovation-based sector specialisation to the review of peers. The principle findings were that (1) technological specialisation brings economic benefits, (2) specialisation takes a long time to change, and that (3) young innovative companies challenge incumbents less successfully in the Union than in the US. The ECO discussed how best to analyse the relative weight of clusters and of the regional business environment as an explanatory factor for regional specialisation in its new task. ...

A joint workshop of the Sectoral Innovation Watch and the European Cluster Observatory will be organised in Brussels, Belgium on 11-12 May 2010 with the title "Innovative industries: Regional and national specialisation patterns and the role of framework conditions". ...

First Thematic Panel on innovative specialisation and innovation performance in May 2010 ...