About VISION Era-Net

VISION Era-Net is a collaborative network of nationally and regionally leading innovation policy agencies. The network includes 12 partners from 10 countries, and develops shared knowledge bases for innovation policy.

The project is part of the 6th Framework Programme of EU that supports the building of European Research Area (ERA), and runs between 2005 and 2009.

Conference: Knowledge Strategies for the European Innovation Economy, 30-31 March, Helsinki Finland

As its final event, VISION Era-Net organized an international research policy conference to map state of the art and future directions in innovation policy intelligence and research. The event took place in Helsinki on March 30-31^st, 2009.

Conference theme

Innovation is a precarious policy arena. Successful innovation systems build upon a mix of research, consisting from evaluation and monitoring activities to basic innovation research and to range of forward looking research activities.

The conference discussed how major global innovation areas generate and exploit research knowledge in order to develop original and competitive innovation strategies and systems. The speakers elaborated in particular how European regions and states may improve coordination and synergies between their knowledge base activities.

Key themes of the conference were
-          Innovation policy strategies
-          Building knowledge bases for innovation policy
-          Evaluation of innovation policies and systems
-          Foresight and innovation policy development
-          Future of European innovation policy intelligence

For accessing the presentations given in the conference, visit the event site.

Download the program: Conference program final (pdf) (766.1 KB)

News

08.04.2009 The VISION Era-Net final conference elaborated on the strategies for the European innovation economy

Conference on Knowledge Strategies for the European Innovation Economy was held on 30-31 March in Helsinki. The conference was the final event of VISION Era-Net, a collaborative network of nationally and regionally leading innovation policy agencies with the aim of developing shared knowledge bases for innovation policy. The conference addressed how major global innovation areas generate and exploit research knowledge in order to develop competitive innovation strategies and systems. The speakers were policy makers from European and other countries, representatives of the European Commission as well as the leading scholars on innovation. An international audience representing 15 countries convened to elaborate the current issues in innovation policy.

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08.02.2009 Innovation partnering forum, Brussels, Belgium

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