On March 1st, 2017 in Usti nad Labem the second meeting of the RATIO stakeholder group in Usti Region was held. Firstly, the current status of the project RATIO was presented at the meeting. Further topics of the meeting were about conducted research among innovative companies in the Usti region, the use of a new benchmarking tool for measuring innovation potential of SMEs „Innovation Health Check " in the company HENNLICH, Ltd. in Litomerice. The attendees were also briefly introduced with best practices, made in collaboration with project partners of the RATIO. One of the themes was also how to prepare an Action plan of the innovation support strategy in the Usti region in 2017 with participation of stakeholders of the project.
Participants agreed on the need of cooperation the stakeholder group with the Regional Development Agency of Usti Region, a.s., which is the partner in the project. Collaboration implies that in addition to discussing proposals to transferring best practices in the Usti Region, members of the stakeholder group will be invited to participate in study tours to other regions of the EU to get to know in place the best practices, to be able assess the appropriateness and effectiveness of best practices for transfer between regions.
