"Entrepreneurial Regions" - The BMBF Innovation Initiative for the New German Länder

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Entrepreneurial Regions - The BMBF Innovation Initiative for the New German Länder

"Entrepreneurial Regions" stands for the building and expansion of special technological, scientific and economic competences in East German regions. Its goal is the sustainable transfer of these competences to innovations, economic growth and employment. The "Entrepreneurial Regions" development programmes therefore establish the basis for the creation of regional economic clusters. (URL: )

 

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  Call for Leaders of Junior Research Groups

  Information concerning the application procedure for Junior Research Group Leaders at the eight new Centres for Innovation Competence (German: Zentren für Innovationskompetenz, ZIK)
  more (URL: http://www.unternehmen-region.de/en/411.php)
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  Programme

  The BMBF Innovation Initiative "Entrepreneurial Regions" (German: Unternehmen Region) stands for innovation-oriented regional alliances which develop the region's identified core competences to clusters on a high level and with strict market orientation.
  more (URL: http://www.unternehmen-region.de/en/36.php)
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  "Entrepreneurial Regions" - The Initiatives

  Whether in Berlin, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Saxony or Thuringia - "Entrepreneurial Regions" (German: Unternehmen Region) is active in all of the New German Länder. This is clearly illustrated in the approach taken by "Entrepreneurial Regions": it is not important where the initiatives' headquarters are located, but how they use their potentials and competences to strengthen their region's competitive ability. The interactive map will take you directly to the portaits of the individual initiatives (in German).
  more (URL: http://www.unternehmen-region.de/en/67.php)
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  Conference "Innovation Networks in Regions - European Experiences and the German InnoRegio Programme" - Berlin, 13 September 2005

  The aim of the BMBF "InnoRegio" programme was to increase the innovative and economic strength of East German regions. The conference examined the contribution of innovation networks to regional profile building and the support of cluster processes.
  more (URL: http://www.unternehmen-region.de/en/1304.php)
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  "Border Regions - Regional Foresight and Innovation Development in East Germany"

  On 20 and 21 June 2005, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) hosted an international conference to discuss the potential of systematic regional planning instruments as a means of overcoming regional development barriers. Representatives from East German as well as other European regions shared their experience on innovative regional development.
  more (URL: http://www.unternehmen-region.de/en/1088.php)