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 MATRIX, Northern Ireland’s science industry panel (NI)

MATRIX, The Northern Ireland Science Industry Panel, is the key to the development of NI's future knowledge-based economy. It has a key advisory role in the formulation of R&D and innovation policies.

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 Link Up

Link Up is a service aimed at facilitating enterprises’ access to skills, structures and technologies provided by the Emilia-Romagna Research system, and at promoting collaboration between enterprises and the research system.

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 “TRANSFORM – Ideas into Businesses” Programme

The TRANSFORM - Ideas into Businesses Programme is a one year full-time business incubation programme which is designed to provide ambitious entrepreneurs, who have an idea for an export focused business, with the necessary business skills, expertise, contacts, networks and facilities to establish successful businesses. It allows them the time and space to develop their business plan and get their business up and running.

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IRE Launch Event: outcomes
The Innovating Regions in Europe want to create a policy consulting community of practice in the field of regional innovation policy based on the involvement of regional governmental practitioners and their partners.
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AN AGENDA FOR A REFORMED COHESION POLICY

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2008 European Innovation Scoreboard
The 2008 European Innovation Scoreboard has now been published.
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IRE Secretariat team says goodbye
The services of the IRE Secretariat are coming to the end now, but IRE Network will continue its work.
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Innovation strategy requires focus and commitment
A new report from a management consulting firm shows that companies are increasingly beginning to question the amount of money they are spending on innovation. Possibly the main factor behind this disillusionment is that often costly innovation processes are not translating into improved profits.
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A chronicle of IRE achievements
From its humble beginnings with the first four regions, the Innovating Regions in Europe (IRE) has grown to become a large and influential network of 235 regions from 32 countries connected by a mutual interest in enhancing their innovation performance. The new publication on the IRE Network results takes a look back at the evolution of the network and provides a unique overview of its activities and the experience gathered over the years.
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