Event Details

IRE Training Session: ‘Innovation policy design, implementation and evaluation’

Madrid, ES

16 April 2008

18 April 2008

The importance of regional innovation policy has increased strongly over the past 15 years. At the same time, the deepened understanding of the nature of innovation has raised the awareness of the need for comprehensive innovation policies that take into account the whole regional innovation system and cover ‘soft’ as well as ‘hard’ measures. This, in turn, has created a need for innovation policy-makers to have a broad understanding of the complex concept of innovation and knowledge about how to formulate and implement effective innovation policies that will be beneficial for their regions.

This unique pilot IRE training session, organised in collaboration with Fundación Madri+d, will provide a comprehensive overview of the whole innovation policy cycle, from design to implementation and follow-up. Given by academics with practical experience, selected IRE members and IRE Secretariat experts, the aim of the training session is to enhance the professional capacities and knowledge of regional staff working in the field of innovation policy. The training session will be built on interactive presentations by high-level trainers, concrete examples from the IRE network and group exercises. The intention is to challenge participants’ views on innovation policy, and increase their ability of designing and implementing high-quality regional innovation policies.

The training targets personnel of regional authorities, regional development agencies, non-governmental organisations and other organisations responsible for designing and implementing regional innovation strategies, both in regions where innovation is a relatively new policy topic and regions that have undertaken innovation policy actions in the past but want to update their competences in the field.

Registrations are open until 28 March. Please register by filling in the form available below and returning it to the IRE Secretariat.

Ms Nathalie Brahim

IRE Secretariat