Project Title: Promotion of Financing Innovation in South-East Europe
Programme: South East Europe Transnational Cooperation Programme (SEE Programme)
Main objective: Addressing a critical gap: investment in knowledge transfer and start-ups and strengthen cross-border matching of innovative firms with suitable investors.
Project results: Key results of the project: 28 organizations with improved capacities in supporting early stage funding of innovation, 135 projects prepared for early stage funding, 10 policy papers at national and SEE levels on improving innovation funding measures, introduction of a new platform for bridging inventors in SEE and local and global investors, and awareness building on the promotion of female inventors.
The role of the Agency in Project implementation: RDA is a partner
Project costs: 1,142,410 EUR
Duration: January 2013 - December 2014