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Aosta Valley Region

Aosta Valley Region. Capital: Aoste Population : 128.507 (densité: 38 habitants/ km2) (2011) GDP per abitant : 33.000 € Active enterprises : about 13.000, primarily represented by micro-enterprises (95% of companies have less than 9 employees).

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Aosta Valley Region

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  1. Aosta Valley Region • Capital: AostePopulation: 128.507 (densité: 38 habitants/ km2) (2011)GDP per abitant : 33.000 € Active enterprises: about 13.000, primarily represented by micro-enterprises (95% of companies have less than 9 employees). • Geographic position: strategic location on the west of the Alps, bordering France and Switzerland • The unemployment rate does not exceed 4% • The tertiary sector (tourism, trade and services) represents a major part with about 80% of regional GDP and about 70% of local businesses. • Among the industry, representing about 20% of GDP, the most important sectors are: steel, electronics, ICT, building, mechanical and mechatronics, hydroelectric energy production.

  2. Innovation towards Pioneering Smart Regions • Smart RegionalSpecialisationStrategy: identification of specific thematic areas, consistent with the regional vocation perspective, the enhancement of local specificities and the areas of industrial specialization; • Open innovation: new approach that goes beyond the classic support to technology transfer, in order to encompass the whole of innovative processes (technological, economic, social, etc.) as well as of stakeholders (not only SMEs and large industries but also the world of research, public administration, citizens, users/consumers, local communities, etc.) along common and sustainable pathways; • Demand-driven innovation: the regional public authority, as a first adopter of innovative solutions, via public procurementprocedures, plans to procure R&D and prototypationservicesable to deal in an efficient, effective and sustainable way with the economic and social needsidentified from the local community.

  3. Key factors for the development • Supporting instruments and toolbox helping the innovative enterprises in the phase of R&D, prototyping and industrialisation of new products and services; • a new and open mindset, a culture of collaboration and partnership between the local actors of innovation, united in a Quadruple Helyx Model: enterprises, public administration, research institutes, citizens; • Pilot actions: Experimentation, testing and validation of new products and services in real life conditions; • Availability of public funding: importance of EU cofinancing, more and more relevant and highly topical in the current difficult period of the public finance.

  4. Pioneering Europe 2020 Smart Regions • Strengthen the Europe-wide open Research, Development & Innovation (RDI) ecosystem, from several perspectives: institutional, financial, cultural; • Support Public-Private Partnership, with the aim to address emerging and major societal challenges; • Support demand-driven innovation policies and open up RDI through instruments such as public procurement of innovation and pre-commercial public procurement; • Address the highly topical issue of market fragmentation, by opening markets for collaborative RDI of enterprises, public authorities, research bodies and civil society.

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