Strengthening smart specialisation by fostering transnational cooperation and practical application of novel solutions for regions and SMEs

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Baltic Sea

Date of latest update: 2023-06-16

Description

Description (EN):

The GoSmart&Excel BSR project focuses on enhancing capacity of innovation actors in the Baltic Sea Region (and beyond) to practically and jointly apply the Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3) approach. The project partnership tackles the common challenge of limited innovativeness and internationalisation among regional and national SMEs by: - developing Transnational S3 document for the BSR, based on a jointly applied methodology (under the GoSmart BSR project), and - continuing the development and expansion the Transnational Innovation Brokerage System which supports SMEs to undertake innovation-based internationalisation in the form of pragmatic and 'smart' joint strategies (SMEs Joint Transnational Smart Strategies). Consequently, within the project, the relatively low capacity for innovation in less developed BSR countries and regions is augmented by: mutual learning, translating S3 into practical SMEs joint actions, and employing best practices from more developed regions. The project is fully integrated within S3 approach and aims to foster effective cooperation in transnational approach between the industry, R&D sector and public authorities. Particularly, the project comes in support to the south and east parts of BSR, focused on four regions: Podlaskie (PL), Kaunas (LT), Vidzeme (LV) and South-Estonia (ES). Conversely, the regions: Syddanmark - DK (AO), Hamburg - DE, Kymenlaakso, West Finland - FI, West Sweden - SE – those covered by the project (and others), are quite advanced in R&D, innovation, innovation-driven and internationalisation-oriented business models. At the same time, both categories of regions as well as other areas of the Baltic Sea Region (and beyond), could benefit from more intensive economic collaboration, joint research and commercialisation of R&D. The main expected results are: 1. Transnational S3 for the Baltic Sea Region - to be adopted and used by all BSR innovation actors to prioritise common actions, also to inspire other EU macro-regions in working out their own S3s. 2. Functioning, expanding, and sustainable Transnational Innovation Brokerage System in the Baltic Sea Region - by using this system, numerous SMEs will implement Joint Transnational Smart Strategies which will help them to internationalise based on innovation, across the BSR and beyond. The ‘GoSmart&Excel BSR’ is the extension of the regular "GoSmart BSR' project and strengthens the utilisation of key outcomes of the regular project. It allows practical application of Transnational S3 methodology and Transnational Innovation Brokerage System based on joint evaluation and sustainability planning by the project partners. The main outputs of the regular project used for this extension stage are: - Transnational Smart Specialisation Strategy methodology (Trans-S3 methodology) - Transnational Innovation Brokerage System (TIBS).

Achievements (EN):

Transnational Smart Specialisation Strategy: One of the main achievements of GoSmart&Excel BSR project is the development of Transnational Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3) for the Baltic Sea Region. Transnational S3 for the Baltic Sea Region is developed to be adopted and used in the future by all innovation actors across the region. The intention is to prioritise joint actions and to inspire other EU macro-regions to develop their own S3s. The project stressed the importance of transnational cooperation and synergies among industry, research and development and public authorities. Business needs in focus: Besides, GoSmart&Excel BSR advanced a practical tool supporting this strategy on a business level, the Transnational Brokerage System for Innovation in the Baltic Sea Region. A functioning, developing and sustainable Transnational Brokerage System for Innovation (TIBS) in the Baltic Sea Region has engaged many SMEs and innovation partners to develop Joint Transnational Smart Strategies that will help their internationalisation based on innovations. As a result, many transnational business and innovation partners came together to develop internationalisation strategies and increase their knowledge. Peer learning: The partnership also addressed the needs of the less developed regions in the Baltic Sea area. The recommendations were to continue with peer learning, translating S3 to practical SMEs joint actions and finding the possibility to learn from the best practices demonstrated by the developed regions. https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/gosmartexcel-bsr/

Website: https://gosmartbsr.eu/gosmartexcel-bsr/

Delivered Outputs (EN): Trans-S3 elaborated for BSR TIBS services provided by more organisations and new SMEs supported in their progressed practical transnational 'smart strategies'

Thematic information

Clustering and economic cooperation SME and entrepreneurship

Specific Objective: ‘Smart specialisation’: To enhance growth opportunities based on increased capacity of innovation actors to apply smart specialisation approach

Thematic Objective: (01) strengthening research, technological development and innovation by:

Investment Priority:

(01b) promoting business investment in R&I, developing links and synergies between enterprises, research and development centres and the higher education sector, in particular promoting investment in product and service development, technology transfer, social innovation, eco-innovation, public service applications, demand stimulation, networking, clusters and open innovation through smart specialisation, and supporting technological and applied research, pilot lines, early product validation actions, advanced manufacturing capabilities and first production, in particular in key enabling technologies and diffusion of general purpose technologies

Partners (10)

Lead Partner: Politechnika Białostocka

Department: Faculty of Management Engineering

Address: Wiejska 45A, 15-351 Bialystok, Poland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.pb.edu.pl

Total budget: EUR 76 465.00

ERDF budget: EUR 64 995.25

Podlaska Regional Development Foundation

Name: Podlaska Regional Development Foundation

Department: Projects department

Address: Starobojarska 15, 15-073 Białystok, Poland

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.pfrr.pl

Total budget: EUR 59 903.75

ERDF budget: EUR 50 918.18

Vidzemes plānošanas reģions

Name: Vidzemes plānošanas reģions

Department: Development and Projects Department

Address: Jāņa Poruka iela 8-108, LV-41010 Cēsis, Cēsu novads, Latvia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.vidzeme.lv

Total budget: EUR 65 918.75

ERDF budget: EUR 56 030.93

Valga Vallavalitsus

Name: Valga Vallavalitsus

Department: International Projects and Development Service

Address: Puiestee 8, 68203 Valga, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.valga.ee

Total budget: EUR 49 108.75

ERDF budget: EUR 41 742.43

VSI Lietuvos inovaciju centras

Name: VSI Lietuvos inovaciju centras

Address: Mokslininku 6A, Vilnius, LT-08412 Vilnius, Lithuania

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.lic.lt

Total budget: EUR 128 250.00

ERDF budget: EUR 109 012.50

Kouvola Innovation Oy

Name: Kouvola Innovation Oy

Department: Bio valley

Address: Paraatikenttä 4, 45100 Kouvola, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.kinno.fi/en

Total budget: EUR 59 875.00

ERDF budget: EUR 44 906.25

Hamburgisches WeltWirtschaftsInstitut gemeinnützige GmbH (HWWI)

Name: Hamburgisches WeltWirtschaftsInstitut gemeinnützige GmbH (HWWI)

Address: Baumwall 7, 20459 Hamburg, Germany

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.hwwi.org

Total budget: EUR 53 485.00

ERDF budget: EUR 40 113.75

Suomen Itämeri-instituutin säätiö

Name: Suomen Itämeri-instituutin säätiö

Address: Kelloportinkatu 1, 33100 Tampere, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.baltic.org/

Total budget: EUR 100 318.75

ERDF budget: EUR 75 239.06

RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB

Name: RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB

Department: Prototyping societies

Address: Käppuddsgatan 1, 82430 Hudiksvall, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: https://www.ri.se/en

Total budget: EUR 101 380.00

ERDF budget: EUR 76 035.00

Foreningen NordDanmarks EU-Kontor

Name: Foreningen NordDanmarks EU-Kontor

Department: Enterprise Europe Network

Address: Østre Alle 6, DK-9530 Støvring, Denmark

Legal status: public

Website: https://eu-norddanmark.dk/

Total budget: EUR 76 155.00

ERDF budget: EUR 57 116.25

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Bialystok University of Technology

Strengthening smart specialisation by fostering transnational cooperation and practical application of novel solutions for regions and SMEs

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Podlaska Fundacja Rozwoju Regionalnego

Strengthening smart specialisation by fostering transnational cooperation and practical application of novel solutions for regions and SMEs

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Vidzeme Planning Region

Strengthening smart specialisation by fostering transnational cooperation and practical application of novel solutions for regions and SMEs

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Valga Municipality

Strengthening smart specialisation by fostering transnational cooperation and practical application of novel solutions for regions and SMEs

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Lithuainian Innovation Centre

Strengthening smart specialisation by fostering transnational cooperation and practical application of novel solutions for regions and SMEs

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Kouvola Innovation Ltd

Strengthening smart specialisation by fostering transnational cooperation and practical application of novel solutions for regions and SMEs

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Hamburgisches WeltWirtschaftsInstitut (HWWI)

Strengthening smart specialisation by fostering transnational cooperation and practical application of novel solutions for regions and SMEs

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Suomen Itämeri-instituutti

Strengthening smart specialisation by fostering transnational cooperation and practical application of novel solutions for regions and SMEs

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RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB

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NorthDenmark EU-Office

Strengthening smart specialisation by fostering transnational cooperation and practical application of novel solutions for regions and SMEs

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Summary

Project name (EN): Strengthening smart specialisation by fostering transnational cooperation and practical application of novel solutions for regions and SMEs

Project acronym: GoSmart&Excel BSR

Project start date: 2021-04-01

Project end date: 2021-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 770 860.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 616 109.60

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 79.90%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 616 109.60.

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Reports

Results of regional consultations and final priorities for Transnational Smart Specialisation Strategy for Baltic Sea Region

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/gosmartexcel-bsr/

Publication date: 2022-11-11

Document date: 2021-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Methodology For Transnational Smart Specialisation Strategy

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://gosmartbsr.eu/about-project/publications/

Publication date: 2022-11-11

Document date: 2019-01-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

"Identification Of Needs Related To Increase Of Innovativeness Of Internationalisation Among Smes"

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://gosmartbsr.eu/about-project/publications/

Publication date: 2022-11-11

Document date: 2018-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Summary Report Of Applicable Concepts

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://gosmartbsr.eu/about-project/publications/

Publication date: 2022-11-11

Document date: 2018-03-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Review And Analysis Of Programmes And Tools Of Public Support In Smart Specialisations, Innovation And Internationalisation Available In Baltic Sea Region (Bsr)

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://gosmartbsr.eu/about-project/publications/

Publication date: 2022-11-11

Document date: 2018-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Brochures / magazines / manuals

Inspiring Experiences From Transnational Innovation Brokerage System - Tibs

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/gosmartexcel-bsr/

Publication date: 2022-11-11

Document date: 2021-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Books

Methodology for Transnational Smart Specialisation Strategy

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Book

Data source: https://gosmartbsr.eu/about-project/publications/

Publication date: 2022-11-11

Document date: 2019-03-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Guidelines for Organising an Innovation Co-Creation Laboratory Online

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Book

Data source: https://gosmartbsr.eu/about-project/publications/

Publication date: 2022-11-11

Document date: 2020-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Studies / surveys

The Uppsala Model Vs. The Network Approach In The Process Of Internationalization

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://gosmartbsr.eu/about-project/publications/

Publication date: 2022-11-11

Document date: 2020-04-01

Languages: en, pl

Attachment file: Download

Barriers In The Internationalization Of Podlasie Smes

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://gosmartbsr.eu/about-project/publications/

Publication date: 2022-11-11

Document date: 2020-04-01

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Media releases / articles

Newsletter May 2022

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Media release / article

Data source: https://gosmartbsr.eu/about-project/publications/

Publication date: 2022-11-11

Document date: 2020-05-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Baltic Sea

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-06-16

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

200 / 200 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

2 025 / 2 025 (100%)

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Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.interreg-baltic.eu/home.html), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-11-30.

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