BSR Stars Programme
The BSR Stars is a transnational innovation programme involving ten countries (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Poland and Island). The programme took it´s starting point in national efforts when it comes to supporting strong clusters and innovation milieus as a way to boost competitiveness. The countries involved in BSR Stars started discussing how national clusters could be further strengthened by creating links to other strong clusters in the neighboring countries ten years ago. By creating trust and exchanging knowledge between policy makers in EU initiatives such as the BSR InnoNet stakeholders (ministries and innovation agencies) started working on a transnational programme on innovation milieus, clusters and SME-networks in 2009. This programme, called the BSR Stars, was later chosen to be a flagship programme within the EU Baltic Sea Region Strategy. The BSR Stars programme is a long-term commitment (2009-2019) and will be constantly developed and renewed by its owners, i.e. Ministries and Innovation Agencies in the ten countries. The long term vision of the programme is to establish the Baltic Sea Region as a functional region with an internationally competitive position in a number of strategically prioritized areas. This will be done by linking strong research environments, clusters and SME-networks from the different countries into new strategic alliances with a global market. More...
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