ClusterCOOP

Innovation is a crucial driving force for economic growth, relevant to every economic sector. Europe needs to improve its performance in innovation to sustain a high and rising standard of living. Clusters provide conditions conducive to innovation and can leverage this potential and increase their excellence if they create linkages with other clusters exploiting complementarities.

Creating and enhancing framework conditions for the effective cross-regional and cross-border cooperation of clusters in Central Europe requires joint actions by the policy makers. In many cases, the regulatory level is the major bottleneck for successful cluster cooperation.

Recognizing this fact the 10 partners (national authorities and intermediary bodies responsible for cluster policies) of the ClusterCOOP project (Central Europe Programme) have set the aim to help clusters better exploit their innovation capacities and improve their competitiveness by enhancing the framework conditions for efficient transnational cluster cooperation between their countries and regions. Partners will work together to

Enhance existing and create new synergies among national/regional cluster policies and funding frameworks
Facilitate emerging industry development through cross regional cluster cooperation and
Promote the flow of information between, and provide a common knowledge base for clusters of CE to facilitate their networking and cooperation.