As part of the European interregional cooperation programmes in which DEV'UP Centre-Val de Loire is actively involved, the agency received a European delegation on 1 March last, with the aim of showing them the regional ecosystem, but also, and above all, of sharing its good practices in terms of innovation strategy and its implementation in the region. The programme included a presentation of the mechanisms and tools deployed to support the innovation of regional companies. A fruitful day during which interactivity and reciprocity were the order of the day!
Recognised at European level for its progress in terms of the deployment of its innovation policy and for the quality of the support provided to its economic ecosystem in this area, the Centre-Val de Loire welcomed a European delegation on 1st March at the Regional Council's offices in Orléans, who had come to gain a better understanding of the Region's good practices and to discover its economic development agency, DEV'UP Centre-Val de Loire.
Indeed, as part of the European interregional cooperation programmes in which DEV'UP Centre-Val de Loire is actively involved, the agency was able to have a privileged exchange with this delegation, which consisted of four of its European counterparts from Italy, Romania, Estonia and Finland.
The objective was to introduce them to the regional ecosystem and share the methods for implementing the regional innovation strategy for intelligent specialisation (SRI-SI). Thus, they were presented, among other things, the regional mechanisms and tools developed to support the innovation of regional companies (entrepreneurial discovery process, adopted methodologies...), concrete examples of synergies on the territory to promote innovation...
A rich day which proved to be fruitful for all the participants and which fits perfectly into this programme of exchange of good practices, financed by the European Union, aiming at reinforcing the support of the actors of the European regions to the companies for their economic development.
