Macro-regional innovation week : at the crossroads of three European macro-regions: Danube, Adriatic-Ionian and Alpine regions

The objective of the Macro-Regional Innovation Week organised by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) and Trieste AREA Science Park was to examine the best way to support the development of a competitive innovation ecosystem across the macro-regions that are relevant because of significant historical and economic ties and because of their inclusion in overlapping European macro-regional strategies. With more than 200 participants, including 75 speakers, mobilising the best expertise in Europe on the subjects, representing local and international policy and decision makers, academics, financial actors and various types of innovation and technology transfer practitioners, the 5-days long Innovation Week focused on facilitating the exchange of views, knowledge and best practices among the relevant stakeholders and looked at different levels of governance with the objective to develop a community of young practitioners which shall contribute to the spreading of innovation culture in the countries concerned.