CATERINA PRATICO’ PHONE: +39.338.1774756 SKYPE: caterinapratico

1. CATERINA PRATICO’ PHONE: +39.338.1774756 SKYPE: caterinapratico Email: caterina.pratico@irpps.cnr.it; c.pratico@email.it Fernando.ferri@irpps.cnr.it Patrizia.grifoni@irpps.cnr.it

2. KnowInGKnowledge Intelligence and Innovation for a sustainable Growth Knowledge intensive activities are driving forces of growing importance. They comprise cultural industries, high-tech branches, higher education institutions and advanced producer services. The project Mainconcepts This proj enhances the cooperation of key institutional and economic actors and promotes the “knowledge economy” Coordination Committee, Rome -15th, 16th July 2010

3. General objective : To promote and support the “knowledge economy” and enhance the cooperation and the encounter among the public institutions, the innovation organizations and the economic actors for the creation of new territorial development policies. In the created partnership the above said 3 typologies of actors are present, coming from 5 countries and operating in 8 regions: 7 MED regions and 1 EU no-MED. KnowInGKnowledge Intelligence and Innovation for a sustainable Growth Coordination Committee, Rome -15th, 16th July 2010

4. SpecificObjectives 1: -to boost agreements, dialogue, cooperation, opportunities for a better collaboration among public authorities, economic and innovation actors by: Creating a transnational multilevel community of practice and an online RC -to influence policy development on innovation by creating a transnational platform of dialogue -to map + assess the MED existing policies on Knowledge economy, the current tools used for innovation and the relevant actors working on the creative industry and in the innovation field by: setting up 3multidisciplinary working groups KnowInGKnowledge Intelligence and Innovation for a sustainable Growth Coordination Committee, Rome -15th, 16th July 2010

5. SpecificObjectives 2: -to experiment and pilot the mainstreaming of local short/medium-term innovation plans both for the private and the public sector, through the involvement of subregional stakeholders in a transnational pp. -to favor the birth or the strengthening of the creative clusters in the KnowInG regions, by creating the institutional condition(plans, support, assistance)+ the private interest in investing in knowledge business -to encourage +foster the common growth of the KnowInG regions based on the knowledge economy by the enhancement of knowhow and the increase of capacity building in the knowledge-based activities KnowInGKnowledge Intelligence and Innovation for a sustainable Growth Coordination Committee, Rome -15th, 16th July 2010

6. SpecificObjectives 3: -to attract innovation +creativity in the MED economy and to favor the mobility of individuals + enterprises operating in the knowledge economy, through the implementation of a pilot project for supporting plans of business settlement -to create innovation +creativity in the MED economy, through the organization of workshops +laboratories of creativity/innovation -to favor SME's internationalization by piloting a system of assistance +support for those businesses wishing to open their interest/action fields at an international level, through the launch of a pp aimed to setting up some regional help desks for international cooperation KnowInGKnowledge Intelligence and Innovation for a sustainable Growth Coordination Committee, Rome -15th, 16th July 2010