Resilience

The iNNovaclúster programme is an alliance between the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, the Ministry of Housing, City and Territory and iNNpulsa Colombia. They established an alliance seeking to co-finance innovation projects that contribute to the economic reactivation of the regions...

China's Ministry of Finance (MOF) and State Taxation Administration (STA) jointly announced in April 2021 that the ratio of pre-tax dedictions on manufacturing firms' expenses on R&D will be raised from 75% to 100%, starting retrospectively on January 1, 2021. Higher pre-tax deductions result in...

The Global Digital Economy Industry Conference 2021 is going to hold in Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center in September 2021. With the theme 'Focus on Digital Economy, Empowering future life', the Expo will bring together new generation technologies, such as big data, cloud computing...

Highlighted in China's 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025), the Bounty System is rolled out nationally to better connect science and industry and fulfill technological needs to boost the country's socioeconomy. Under this measure, the government publishes a list of specific research obstacles submitted...

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...

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...

The 'Wallonia European Creative District' (WECD) is a framework programme that puts creativity and innovation at the centre of the Walloon regional development. The WECD aims at enhancing the potential of creative and cultural industries to revitalise the industrial transition of the Walloon economy...

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 initiative Connected Mobility - The Smart Future (ICM) is a hub founded by the Automotive Cluster and the IT Cluster of Business Upper Austria (the Upper Austrian Business Agency). The initiative addresses both companies from the IT and automotive industries in order to develop mobility...

Technopoles are platforms for know-how transfer, knowledge dissemination and promotion of regional and international cooperation. Their objective is to create technology-oriented economic areas to strengthen the economics of special regions. The Technopole Programme of Lower Austria started in 2004...

The National Cluster Platform (NCP) Austria is a cooperation platform for cluster institutions, cluster members and cluster experts, established at the initiative of the Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs. Currently, 71 clusters and networks are members of the National Cluster...