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ZEBx was founded by the City of Vancouver. It is a platform that strengthens the public and private capacities for zero emission buildings in Vancouver and British Columbia and uses a collaborative model unique to the building industry. The main beneficiaries are developers, industry associations...

Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) helps Canadian companies develop and deploy competitive, clean technology solutions, to solve some of the world’s most pressing environmental challenges: climate change, clean air, clean water and clean soil. SDTC does this through funding, knowledge...

Bioindustrial Innovation Canada (BIC) is a not-for-profit business accelerator based in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. Established in 2008 with a CAD 30 millions (EUR 20 millions) in total funding. BIC established a premier accelerator facility at the Sarnia-Lambton Campus of the Western University...

The Sofia Tech Park is a state-owned company aimed to boost innovation, research and technological development. It is co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund. The main focus areas are ICT, life sciences and green energy. The objective is to foster knowledge exchange between academia and...

The project is financed by the programme of 2014 - 2020 Interreg IPA CBC Bulgaria - Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. It is led by the Bulgarian Academy of Science and it aims to stimulate productivity and competitiveness, economic growth and investments, intensify cooperation between business...

Centres of Excellence and Centres of Competence are key innovation infrastructures in advanced regional innovation systems. They aim to attract highly qualified researchers within a triple helix arrangement, involving public organisations, private companies, universities and clusters, to generate...

AgroHub.BG is the Bulgarian Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) for agriculture. The portal allows the different agribusiness units linked to agribusiness and technology – farmers, machinery, equipment and software manufacturers, clusters and policy institutions to communicate and interact with each other...

The INTERA Technology Park aims to (1) assist companies in developing new products and services (2) provide a highly skilled and trained workforce (3) raise awareness of new technologies (3) support business internationalisation. The centre provides adequate knowledge, skills and initial resources...

The Green Agenda for the Western Balkans is applicable to the six Western Balkan countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia. The main actions concern: (1) climate action, including decarbonisation, energy and mobility, (2) circular economy, addressing...

The Made Different initiative started in Flanders and was then implemented in Wallonia, with the aim to increase the competitiveness of the manufacturing industry by supporting the digital transformation of production processes. The overall goal of this initiative is to transform manufacturing...

The Flemish government, with the support of VIL, the Flanders Innovation Cluster on Logistics, established the Logistics Resilience Task Force. The objective of the task force was to support companies to adapt to the Covid-19 pandemic and to optimise their activities, possibly through digital...

The Living labs programme in Wallonia enables companies to discover and experiment new technologies, and to test their products, solutions and concepts with end users. The objectives of the programme are to : 1) Encourage communication between the different Livings ;abs to form a community of...