Knowledge Industries

BioPartner Center Maastricht - Maastricht, The Netherlands

The BioPartner Center will offer accommodation to (start-up) companies in the Life Science sector, thereby imparting an impetus to new activities and job opportunities in the sector.

Starters cluster, Caballero Factory - The Hague, the Netherlands

A starters centre is aimed at innovative starters is housed in a derelictindustrial complex, the Caballero Factory. The centre will function as anincubator for starter enterprises in the creative and innovative sectors.

Merseyside Life Science Sector Development Programme - Liverpool, UK

The MerseyBIO project was established by the University of Liverpool withERDF Objective One funding in 2000. Following an initial evaluation of thestatus and potential of the life science industry and research sector onMerseyside, a large-scale sector development programme for the life sciencesector was committed to by the Objective One programme in 2002.

Liverpool Science Park – Innovation Centre – Liverpool, UK

The objective of the Innovation Centre is to create, stimulate and grow thelocal knowledge economy and thereby to provide economic regeneration throughinvesting in Research and Development, support for entrepreneurship and thecreation of new high value employment.

Development of tools for Knowledge Management in SMEs

Knowledge Management is a key factor for economic success, both forenterprises and regions. Therefore a project was set up in the Austrian regionof Carinthia in order to improve the competitiveness of the region and Small andMedium-sized Enterprises with the help of Knowledge Management.

The Hudiksvall Fiber Optic Valley – an innovation system for regional growth

Fiber Optic Valley is one of a few innovation systems for regional growth inSweden. It is Sweden’s single largest venture for Research & Development (R&D), education and training, manufacture and testing of the new fiber opticInformation Techonlogy (IT) infrastructure.

The Knowledge Economy and the City. Towards a dynamic knowledge society in 2010

'Knowledge Economy and the City', a Dutch-language publication, sets out whatthe towns and cities of the G30, the thirty largest towns and cities of theNetherlands, are doing to stimulate the knowledge economy.

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Research Park for knowledge-based business development - Svendborg, DK

Svendborg local authority is cooperating with two private companies in the establishment of a research park, which stimulates the development of high quality knowledge.