Studies
Date: 01 mar 2007
Period: 2007-2013
Theme: Business support, Energy, Environment, Health, Transport, Urban development, Research and innnovation, Research & Development, Social inclusion, Jobs, Education and Training
Languages: cs | da | de | el | en | es | et | fi | fr | hu | it | lt | lv | nl | pl | pt | sk | sl | sv
Cohesion policy supports innovation in two main ways: the co-fi nancing provided through the Structural Funds and the development of a system of regional governance based on strategic development, partnership, programming, monitoring and evaluation. In many cases, the governance system is an innovative policy in itself. For the cohesion policy programmesduring the period 2007–13, the European Commission carried out an evaluation on innovation and the knowledge-based economy , which aimed to provide guidance on how to implement regional innovation activities under the StructuralFunds. The diversity of innovation performance and potential amongst the European regions led to the definition of a typology of various regions requiring diff erent approaches on innovation policies.