Title

Analysis of Alpine innovation and cooperation potentials

Objectives

The analyse of Alpine potentials is the base for activities in the other workpackages of NENA. The aims are:
- Defining the core strengths of Alpine regions
- Identification of innovative potentials in SMEs.
- Identification of needs and main obstacles for innovation
- Definition of new markets

Description of main activites

1. Analyses of core-economies to find out the strengths of each participating region.
2. Analyses of potentials for innovation and cooperation in clusters and SMEs: The aim is to find out the needs, problems and main obstacles for SMEs in realising innovation and co-operation. This is the base for creating the right instruments to support SMEs.
3. Analyses of new markets: Depending on the results of 1. and 2. new markets for Alpine innovations are defined.

WP5 is closely linked with WP8.

Starting Date

June 2006

Duration in month

12

Expected Costs

100.400.- Euros

Responsible for this WP

Tyrol

Are there any Common Transnational Activities planned within this WP?

no

Tasks of each individual PP in this WP

1. Each partner analyses with the help of experts the core economy fields in his region. Existing data should be used as well as results of a pre-analysis. This gives an overview for the participating organisations.
2. In the second step every partner tries to find out special needs and obstacles for innovation and cooperation in the defined fields. Existing data should be used, but also new data should be developed. In an expert group the parameters of the analyses are defined and the results are evaluated.
3.The analysis of new markets will be a common activity of all partners.

Expected outputs and results of the WP

The description of the regional strengths is an important basis for further activities (economic models, supporting programmes, ..) beginning with the chosen clusters. Professional marketing and in general market knowledge is not state of the art in most of the SME´s. The analyses of new markets should help them for more professional market accessibility. The study will be a first result for a market place tool to the alpine core economies