BRIDGES project is about challenges that regions face, deriving from the effectiveness of their RIS3 implementation. The challenges addressed in BRIDGES are:
RIS3 is about innovation-based growth in regions. It builds on relatedness, embeddedness, and critical mass. While innovation leader regions are endowed –at least for the most part, with all three conditions, other types of regions lack one or more. Moreover, innovation leader regions might suffer from lock-ins not allowing their research to be fully valorised. With this background, BRIDGES makes two hypotheses:
by adopting advanced processes & seeking required knowledge where it exists, provided absorptiveness capacity is ensured.
by diffusing their by diffusing their research & innovation solutions, leading to more income and possible new fields of research.
POLICY LEARNING
ACTION PLANS ARE IMPLEMENTED, MONITORED AND EVALUATED.
RIS3 of all partner regions
Number of enterprises cooperating with research institutions
(PP1,2,3,5,6,7).