Baltic Sea States
Subregional
Co-operation
Innovation Transfer
The BSSSC Innovation Transfer Working Group serves as a dynamic platform for knowledge exchange, cross-border collaboration, and sustainable development across the Baltic Sea Region. Our goal is to empower stakeholders from governance, education, and various sectors to share, adapt, and implement innovative solutions for regional growth.
Smart specialisation and Bio-economy
The concept of smart specialisation has proven to be successful in fostering innovation by strengthening the competitive advantages and development potentials of regions.
Bio-economy offers great opportunities for accelerating growth and sustainable development in the Baltic Sea Region. The crosscutting nature of bio-economy calls for new ways of working and cooperating, as well as new processes, services and products that can contribute to a greener future.
Bio-economy development creates business opportunities in both urban and rural areas with circular management of material flows and energy and effective innovation ecosystems. BSSSC believes that existing development projects and business examples in BSR deliver concrete experiments of innovation ecosystems as a basis for continuous development together.
BSSSC.
-
Cooperates with the relevant Policy Area Coordinators in the EUSBSR;
-
Formulates political requirements of the regions towards decision-making bodies on the topics concerned;
-
Provides meeting places and be a platform for stakeholder engagement and share of good practises and disseminate best practise examples from projects and governance models;
-
Facilitates continuous exchange of best practices and expertise across borders;
-
Drives innovation in environmental protection, business, education, culture, and social service;
-
Collaborates with universities, research institutions, policymakers, and industry leaders, such as:
- Interreg BSR Joint Secretariat (GER)
- Utrecht University (NL)
- Nordic Council of Ministers (LV)
- Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council (FI)
- European Innovation Council (BE)
- The Baltic Institute of Finland (FI)
and many more.
Innovation Transfer Rapporteur to BSSSC
