Interregional Innovative Services Sector Network of Excellence
Services sector enterprises are in most cases SME (very often small and very small scaled enterprises) with a great potential to act flexibly and innovatively and to be the backbone of the regional innovation process. In many cases this potential remains unused in terms of transformation into sustainable development and economic growth, creation of new products, new employment and internationalisation possibilities. The project aims at strengthening relationships between companies, administrations, innovation and development organisations and research institutions in the participating regions and finally fostering spatial integration by establishing and intensifying co-operation between these actors. There is a special focus on small and medium sized enterprises in the innovative services sector. InServNet addresses the shortfall in the collaboration potential of services sector SME by aiming at the elaboration of guidelines for regional and interregional innovation and for the support of these innovation processes. The goal is to support the establishment of transnational, organisational and technological linkages between industries, SME, the regional innovation system, stakeholders and regional/ national administrative bodies.