EU-DRIVERS Conference

"Universities leading regional innovation: New partnerships at a time of economic crisis"

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Barcelona, Wednesday 17 November 2010

 (preceeded by the DEAN Conference on "Out of the crisis into sustainable recovery? Maintaining quality at a time of constrained resources", Barcelona, 15-16 November 2010)

As a highly focused and interactive event, the conference will be based on a report with case studies and examples of good practices on regional innovation drawn from the EU-DRIVERS pilot partnership projects and building on partners' expertise.

The EU-DRIVERS Pilot Partnership Projects are a major component of the EU-DRIVERS Project as 'showcase' projects, involving the 'triple helix' stakeholders from a university, public authority (local/regional government) and business/community. The projects provide a core base for practical knowledge sharing about routes to improving regional cooperation between universities, public authorities and business to encourage regional innovation. During the conference, specific case studies addressing opportunities for regional developments in times of crisis will be addressed.

The conference will start with a networking dinner on 16 November. On 17 November the conference will be split into morning plenary sessions with key senior level speakers and afternoon thematic parallel sessions.

The underlying aim is to provide participants with the latest information on developments with regional innovation policy and practice. To do so, the conference will relate to EU and national policy and showcase examples of successful regional cooperation from within and beyond the EU-DRIVERS partnership.

Preliminary programme

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