Regional Policy for Research and Innovation' The Innovative Actions

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• Regional Policy for Research and Innovation. The
  Innovative Actions
• in the Lombardy Region - Italy

"PRAI Minerva"
IRE Network Meeting - Poznan, 11 June 2003
Giancarlo Leoni
Project Manager RITTS East Lombardy
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Regional Strategies

• The innovation capability is a key factor for the
  development and the competitivity of a modern
  economic system.
• Lombardy Region policies supporting the
  companies' system recognize research, innovation
  and the technology transfer as strategic factors.
• But also the strenghtening of the research and
  the knowledge utilization are key factors in the
  promotion of start ups and spin offs.

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Programmi e coordinamento

• Selection and support of the exellence.
• Development of a Regional Network of "centres of
  excellence" for the diffusion of innovation in
  the regional system, to foster the exchange of
  informations and opportunities.
• Definition of a monitoring and measurement system
  of the actions.
• Experimentation of cash voucher for supporting
  the technological research.
• Incentivation of the start up of innovative
  companies.
• Realization of Governance tools.

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The role of the Region
Title V of the Constitution
VI Framework Programme
The region as promotional subject for networking
in SME based productive systems
Regional dimension of the research as said by the
EU
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Regional Programme for Innovative Actions
The Regional Programme for Innovative Actions
PRAI Minerva represents the opportunity to
experiment a new approach and innovative
metodologies for the regional policies in the
economic field.
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Strategic Thematics
Aims and financial endowment
Regional economy based on knowledge and
technological innovation
Establishment of an "Integrated Regional System
for Innovation" (regional network)
Euro Regio the information society for the
regional development
Best practices on innovation and promotional
actions in Ob. 2 areas.
Financial endowment 9.162.000
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Beneficiaries and interventions
Aims

• Minerva Programme for
• SMEs
• Development agencies
• Entrepreneurs Associations
• Chambers of Commerce
• Universities
• Research Centres
• Public Administrations
• Service Centres
• Interventions in
• Ob. 2 areas
• Out of objective areas
• Model areas (Sesto San Giovanni)

• To foster the technical strenghtening of the
  productive systems and the linkage between the
  research and the industrial worlds
• To elaborate public-private innovation strategies
• To incentivate new technologies development to
  strenghtening the competitivity of the productive
  system in Lombardy

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PRAI MINERVA Transversal Actions

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PRAI MINERVA - Horizontal Actions

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for further informations see the web
site www.artigianato.regione.lombardia.it ..in
Italian