Detailed strategic planning is missing at a regional level in the EU, with local authorities failing to design coherent long-term innovation roadmaps.
“The early pre-identification of funding opportunities is the last thing regions are thinking about. Without doing this, you will see regions limited to ad-hoc success,” said Alasdair Reid, head of Technopolis office for Brussels and Tallinn, speaking at a session on EU Regional Funding at the Innovation Convention hosted by ERRIN in Brussels earlier this month.
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