Transregional Stakeholders Panel held in Stockholm on "Technology and Knowledge Transfer by 2018"

Stockholm, Sweden, April 15th and 16th

Mr Peter Hedyebreck from inno Group facilitated on April 15th a Trans-regional Stakeholders Panel where 28 regional and EU experts got to discuss and agree on a Vision for trans-regional Technology and Knowledge Transfer by 2018 among the ForTransRIS regions: Navarra (Spain), Bretagne (France), Liguria (Italy), Stuttgart (Germany) and Stockholm (Sweden).

This Vision will revolve around 3 hot topics selected by all regions:

• 1. New business models
• 2. Entrepreneurial Universities.
• 3 Networking.

Specific trans-regional actions among the 5 regions in order to advance towards the agreed Vision were already pointed out during the Panel, and will be part of the resulting Trans-regional Road Map, to be agreed by all partners in next Consortium meeting in September, in Valencia, Spain.

The fifth Consortium Meeting was held on April 16th, where the methodology for the trans-regional Road Map validation was agreed. The organisation of the ForTransRIS Final seminar, the development of the Methodology Guide and the future ForTransRIS Network were also discussed during the meeting.