Boosting Innovation Tour

Boosting Innovation Tour conference at BVV in Brno 2019

Increasingly companies across the EU need access to open innovation ecosystems, to assist upscaling new technologies, product testing and validation support. Industrial research infrastructures, whether public, semi-public or private, refer to facilities, equipment and support services that address innovation across the entire value chain.

The cost of such open innovation ecosystems and their associated infrastructures can be very high, especially for SMEs and start-ups. Therefore the European Commission, Member States and regions, all collaborate on various open innovation tools to support fast-cycle development of new products and facilitation of market uptake: Digital Innovation Hubs, Open Innovation Test Beds, Centres for Key Enabling Technologies (KETs and regional centres), among others.

Technology Centre CAS, Ministry of Industry and Trade, JIC, Office of the South Moravian Region for Interregional Cooperation, CEITEC Brno University of Technology, Amires, Eurocentrum Brno, Moravian-Silesian Innovation Center and the European Commission, DG Research and Innovation coorganise Boosting Innovation for EU Industry conference, which will take place in Brno, the Czech Republic on the 19th November, 2019!

The main objective of the conference was to present EU national and regional initiatives to support innovation, access to research and technology infrastructure and financial support to boost innovation beyond 2020.

The conference showed cases of successful examples of innovation support and provided an opportunity to provide feedback to high-level EU representatives and discuss the needs of the local industry.