Regional innovation policy impact assessment and benchmarking projects meeting

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Regional innovation policy impact assessment and
benchmarking projects meeting

• Monday 6 June 2005
• Ljubljana, Slovenia

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• MERIPA
• Methodology for European Regional Innovation
  Policy Assessment

Presented by Charlotte Pedersen Co-ordinator
Aalborg Municipality North Denmark EU-office
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MERIPA - Key dimensions

• Overall budget approx. 1,8 M
• Duration 30 months
• 12 partners from 5 European regions
• Blekinge, Sweden
• Kouvola, Finland
• Vilnius, Lithuania
• Emilia-Romagna, Italy
• North Jutland, Denmark

Research institutions Public authorities Business
communities
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MERIPA - Objectives
To develop a comprehensive and coherent
methodology for assessing regional policies on
research and innovation

• To raise awareness of the importance of research
  and innovation policy in the pilot regions
• To develop impact analysis methodologies to
  measure regional innovation policies and measures
• To implement and test the methodologies and tools
  in the 5 MERIPA regions
• To achieve a trans-national and inter-regional
  platform ? Mutual Learning

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MERIPA Process

• Regional awareness and consensus building
• Defining and developing methodology, instruments
  and tools
• Defining and developing benchmarking indicators
• Studying RIS/RITTS results
• Implementation and analysis
• Benchmarking and MERIPA toolbox

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MERIPA - Partners

• Aalborg Municipality North Denmark EU-office
• Aalborg University
• North Jutland County
• Region Blekinge
• Blekinge Institute of Technology
• Lappeenranta University of Technology
• Technology Centre Kareltek, Region of South
  Karelia
• Kouvola Region Federation of Municipalities
• Region Emilia-Romagna
• ASTER S. Cons. P. a.
• Mykolas Romeris University
• Technical Support for European Organisations SPRL

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MERIPA - Implementation
MERIPA The Learning Platform
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MERIPA

• Thank you for your attention!
• Contact
• cp_at_aalborg.be