ACCelerating regional competitivenESS and sector-based excellence through innovation management tools and techniques
Innovation policy is considered as a key driving force towards reinforcing the competitiveness. Throughout the European Union, hundreds of policy measures and support schemes have been implemented in the past few years or are being drafted. Their diversity reflects the diversity of the underlying conditions, cultural preferences and political priorities of the Member States, but only in exceptional cases they consider sector-specific features and characteristics.

The project ACCESS involves 11 partners from all eight Member states of the Programme area who joint their forces in order to indentify tools and techniques of regional innovation management that will improve the innovation capacities across the area, using the sectoral approach and involving the important stakeholders in the process.

The methodology used will cover the knowledge audit of regional innovation capabilities in terms of sectoral specifics. The partners will share innovation management tools and techniques and perform innovation management trainings.