Innovation in the Baltic Sea Region

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BSR Stars is a programme for Research & Innovation (R&I), Clusters and SME networks in the Baltic Sea Region. The objective of BSR Stars is to create a number of world-leading innovation hubs in the Baltic Sea region by fostering R&I and business-driven transnational collaboration between companies, strong R&I milieus, clusters and SME networks, in order to strengthen economic growth in the whole Baltic Sea region. BSR Stars will mobilize transnational cooperation between competences and actors in the Baltic Sea region in order to successfully address some of the grand societal challenges with expected large global market potentials. BSR Stars will, together with other networks, develop platforms where students, universities and companies can develop new products and services together with companies. The platform is an enabler for novel cross-border university-business cooperation to create real solutions to existing problems and challenges in the Baltic Sea region. BSR Stars focus on utilizing the regions smart specialization strategy combining research, innovation and cooperation, leading to capacity building, stronger international competitiveness, increase in foreign investments and world-class players in some strategic areas. The BSR Stars work to strengthen the co-operation in the region by development of methods for better exploiting the potential of innovative SMEs by connecting SME networks, mainly initiated at local/regional levels. BSR Stars will continue to mobilize actors via ‘BSR Innovation Express’ – a joint call to improve the internationalization of clusters and the SME network. This will enable cluster organizations and companies to access support for networking, business match-making and market research activities etc. The flagship involves partners from Estonia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland and Sweden.

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